“I was cyber-bullying my niece on Instagram yesterday, and I literally ate 15 mini-muffins. I’m so bad”: Food, Bodies, and Postfeminist Culture
Location
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
30-9-2015 4:00 PM
Description
Popular feminist figureheads Amy Schumer, Mindy Kaling, and Lena Dunham have many things in common, but they are particularly lauded for bringing more average body sizes to television. Given journalists’ obsession with their weight, it is no surprise that food and drink play large roles in Schumer, Kaling, and Dunham’s television series (Inside Amy Schumer, The Mindy Project, and Girls, respectively). Meg Tully examines how each woman uses her television series as a platform to link women’s relationships to food to our current postfeminist culture.
Recommended Citation
Tully, Meg, "“I was cyber-bullying my niece on Instagram yesterday, and I literally ate 15 mini-muffins. I’m so bad”: Food, Bodies, and Postfeminist Culture" (2015). Humanities Symposium. 18.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2015/2015/18
“I was cyber-bullying my niece on Instagram yesterday, and I literally ate 15 mini-muffins. I’m so bad”: Food, Bodies, and Postfeminist Culture
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Popular feminist figureheads Amy Schumer, Mindy Kaling, and Lena Dunham have many things in common, but they are particularly lauded for bringing more average body sizes to television. Given journalists’ obsession with their weight, it is no surprise that food and drink play large roles in Schumer, Kaling, and Dunham’s television series (Inside Amy Schumer, The Mindy Project, and Girls, respectively). Meg Tully examines how each woman uses her television series as a platform to link women’s relationships to food to our current postfeminist culture.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture