Lights, Camera, Feminism?: Celebrities and Anti-Trafficking Politics

Celebrities in the United States have drawn significant attention and resources to the complex issue of human trafficking--a subject of feminist concern--and they are often criticized for promoting sensationalized and simplistic understandings of the issue. In this comprehensive analysis of celebrities' anti-trafficking activism, however, Samantha Majic finds that this phenomenon is more nuanced: even as some celebrities promote regressive issue narratives and carceral solutions, others use their platforms to elevate more diverse representations of human trafficking and feminist analyses of gender inequality. Lights, Camera, Feminism? thus argues that we should understand celebrities as multilevel political actors whose activism is shaped and mediated by a range of personal and contextual factors, with implications for feminist and democratic politics more broadly.

Author: Samantha Majic
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 05/16/2023
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780520384903
ISBN10: 0520384903
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Human Trafficking
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Popular Culture

About the Author
Samantha Majic is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College--CUNY. She is coauthor of Youth Who Trade Sex in the US: Intersectionality, Agency, and Vulnerability, coeditor of Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism, and author of Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision.