Queens for a Day:<i>Queer Eye for the Straight Guy</i>and the Neoliberal Project

Sender, Katherine

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“…Nevertheless, paying more careful attention to men and masculinity may deepen understanding of how gender and sexuality are re-articulated in a postfeminist (media) culture. Certainly, some relevant beginnings have already been made, for example, the link between male subjectivities and neoliberalism has been recognized in previous studies (Sender, 2006) as well as the shift towards the disciplining and policing of male embodiment (Gill et al, 2008). These tendencies can be found, for example, in the reality television series The Biggest Loser in which the discourses of bodily management, responsibility and individuality concern male competitors as much as they concern women.…”

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“…In passing these tests, the man achieves a level of bodily management that, the programme suggests, leads the participant to a better and more powerful social position: the man becomes admired and respected by his peers as well as by his partner. Sometimes the possibility for career advancement is also mentioned (see also Sender, 2006;Di Mattia, 2007, p. 142). In these two series the opportunities that postfeminism is said to offer to women (McRobbie, 2009) seem to be available for men, the so-called free choices that men make materialize as career options and general life management skills.…”

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Managed makeovers? Gendered and sexualized subjectivities in postfeminist media culture

Kolehmainen

2012

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This article continues the discussion of new articulations of gender and sexuality in late modern societies. It examines the shaping of postfeminist, neoliberal subjectivity through the different articulations of 'gay' and 'straight', femininity and masculinity. The interrelatedness of discursive, material and affective in the constitution of subject positions is of special interest. This article includes an analysis of two makeover series -How to Look Good Naked and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy -and suggests that practices such as consumption, choosing 'freely' and bodily management constitute men and masculinity as well as women and femininity, even if the subject positions in the shows differ in ways that contribute to re-traditionalizing gender. Despite their reflexive ways of realizing the transformations, the programmes involve ambivalent ways of making gender difference, such as re-gendering masculinity and femininity. Also, the gay experts in the shows ambivalently participate in maintaining gender dichotomy and heteronormativity.

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Managed makeovers? Gendered and sexualized subjectivities in postfeminist media culture

Kolehmainen

2012

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“…Additionally, Sender (2006) makes a similar claim about the Bravo cable network's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which has been likened to a form of gay minstrelsy in a format laden with consumerism, product placement, and corporate sponsorship. We are particularly troubled by the conflation of consumerism and citizenship in neoliberalism, which may lead society at large to celebrate consumer inclusion as a civil/human rights victory.…”

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Contesting Neoliberalism Through Critical Pedagogy, Intersectional Reflexivity, and Personal Narrative: Queer Tales of Academia

Jones

Calafell

2012

Journal of Homosexuality

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In this essay, we use personal narrative to explore allies and alliance building between marginalized people working in and through higher education, with an eye toward interrogating the ways in which ideologies of neoliberalism work to maintain hierarchy through the legitimation of Othering. Inspired by Conquergood (1985), who calls scholars to engage in intimate conversation rather than distanced observation, we offer our embodied experiences as a way to use the personal to reflect upon the cultural, social and political. Our narratives often recount being out of place, moments of incongruence, or our marked Otherness. Through the sharing of these narratives, we will demonstrate the possibility for ally building based in affective connections forged through shared queer consciousness, paying particular attention to the ways in which neoliberal ideologies, such as individualism and postracism, may advance and impede such alliances.Key Words: alliance building, feminist theory, intersectional reflexivity, neoliberalism, personal narrative, queer pedagogy Jones, R. G., Jr., & Calafell, B. M. (2012). Contesting neoliberalism through critical pedagogy, intersectional reflexivity, and personal narrative: Queer tales of academia. Journal of Homosexuality, 59(7), 957-981. neoliberal policy recommendations include "deregulation of business, privatization of public activities and assets, elimination of or cutbacks in social welfare programs, and reduction of taxes on businesses and the investing class" (p. 65). Writing before the "great recession" he continues, with eerie accuracy, to note that "the neoliberal model creates instability on the macroeconomic level…by loosening public regulation of the financial sector. This renders the system more vulnerable to major financial crises and depression" (p. 66). Even though these claims clearly make a case for neoliberalism's culpability in our current economic downturn, neoliberalism's suspicion of government intervention in economic regulation can be seen in current negative reactions to continued government spending to try to invigorate the economy. In short, Kotz argues that suspicion of government intervention is based on the "grounds that such intervention is likely to create more problems than it solves" (p. 64). In fact, neoliberal economic 3 policies will likely not create more problems for big-business or the wealthy; however, the very voters who elected leaders, like Boehner, who taut these policies are not as likely to benefit.Slaughter and Rhoades (2004) explain: "The benefits of the neoliberal state [tend] to accrue less to the broad citizenry and more to large corporations, the wealthy, and the upper middle class"(pp. 309-310). These policies once again disenfranchise queers of color, and others, who are not represented within this upper middle class status.Neoliberal politics have also created a backlash against higher education as we face the growing problem of state budget crises and higher education and public employees in general, rather large corp...

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“…queer, transgénero, poliamoroso-pueden entrar en relación con una racionalidad neoliberal de gobierno sobre la conducta y la subjetividad, específicamente en el contexto mediático. Siguiendo la línea de distintos estudios que apuntan hacia la conexión entre diversas identidades sexogenéricas y las políticas neoliberales en el ámbito cultural y mediático (Shugart, 2003;Avila-Saavedra, 2009;Sender, 2006;Peterson, 2011;Oswin, 2014), este trabajo se propone indagar sobre la consonancia entre determinadas formas de representación mediática de estas identidades y un conjunto de saberes psi (Rose, 1998) que, articulados a la idea del individuo como 'empresario sí', movilizan ciertas lógicas de gestión de sexualidad y el género propios.…”

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Las nuevas categorías sexuales y la psicología del sujeto como ‘empresario de sí’: un análisis sobre los dilemas de la disidencia sexogenérica en el contexto neoliberal

Guzmán

2016

Univ Psychol

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r e s u M e n El presente artículo indaga por las formas en que distintas identidades sexogenéricas no normativas -especialmente en el contexto mediático-entran en relación con una racionalidad neoliberal de gobierno de la subjetividad y la conducta. De manera particular, propone mostrar la consonancia entre determinadas formas de construcción mediática de estas identidades y la noción del sujeto como 'empresario de sí', presente en los discursos psicológicos contemporáneos. Para mostrar esta relación, se analiza el caso de un reportaje de prensa titulado "Las nuevas categorías sexuales", utilizando herramientas del análisis del discurso desde una perspectiva pragmática y foucaultiana. Finalmente, se advierten algunas tensiones y dilemas que existen en los proyectos políticos de resistencia y disidencia sexogenérica en el contexto neoliberal contemporáneo. a b s t r a c tIn this paper I discuss the way in which specific non-normative sex/gender identities -especially in media context-can be connected to a form of neoliberal governmentality acting upon the subjectivity and behavior of individuals. The particular aim is to examine the relationship between specific media constructions of sex/gender identities and the notion of the subject as a "entrepreneur of the self" present in contemporary psychological discourse. To show this relation, a case consisting on a report published in a pop magazine titled "The new sexual categories" is analyzed. Analysis is conducted using discourse analysis from a pragmatic and foucauldian perspectives. Finally, I show some tensions and dilemmas faced by sex/ gender political projects of resistance in contemporary neoliberal context.

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Queens for a Day:Queer Eye for the Straight Guyand the Neoliberal Project

Cited by 107 publications

References 12 publications

Managed makeovers? Gendered and sexualized subjectivities in postfeminist media culture

Managed makeovers? Gendered and sexualized subjectivities in postfeminist media culture

Contesting Neoliberalism Through Critical Pedagogy, Intersectional Reflexivity, and Personal Narrative: Queer Tales of Academia

Las nuevas categorías sexuales y la psicología del sujeto como ‘empresario de sí’: un análisis sobre los dilemas de la disidencia sexogenérica en el contexto neoliberal

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