Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black · Thirteen Critical Essays by Householder, April Kalogeropoulos -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Acknowledgments Introduction: Is Orange the New Black?

The Prison Industrial Complex Gender as a Cultural Construct Intersectional Approaches Overview: An Intersectional Feminist Approach to OITNB References

“Chocolate and vanilla swirl, swi-irl”

Race and Lesbian Identity Politics

A Brief Overview of Gay and Lesbian (In)Visibility Structuring Our Worldview: The Impact of Stereotypes Lesbian Bodies: Pushing Boundaries Competition and Promiscuity: Boo and Nicky Rejection and Abandonment: Poussey and Crazy Eyes Idealization and Fetishization: Piper and Alex Conclusion References

We Will Survive

Race and Gender-Based Trauma as Cultural Truth Telling

Understanding Race and Gender-Based Trauma Trauma as Cultural Truth Telling Combating Trauma as Spectacle and Dehumanization Grounding Trauma Narratives Theorizing Sexual Trauma Conclusion References

Jenji Kohan’s Trojan Horse

Subversive Uses of Whiteness

Examining White Privilege through a Feminist Lens Looking the Trojan Horse in the Mouth: Who Is Piper Chapman? A Horse of a Different Color: Intersectional Whiteness in Litchfield Decentering Piper: Breaking Down the Trojan Horse Conclusion References

“You don’t look full … Asia”

The Invisible and Ambiguous Bodies of Chang and Soso

Mei Chang

Invisibility American Orientalism What’s in the Title? Reconciliation? For Whom?

Brook Soso

Racial Ambiguity Sexual Ambiguity “Assimilable epiphany”

Coda Acknowledgments References

Cleaning Up Your Act

Surveillance, Queer Sex and the Imprisoned Body

What We Tell Ourselves About Ourselves Sex and Power Pedagogy of the Oppressed References

The Transgender Tipping Point

The Social Death of Sophia Burset

“For your own good”: Segregating the Superwoman Untangling Tropes of Transfeminine Representation Trans Folk, Prison and Social Death References

All in the (Prison) Family

Genre Mixing and Queer Representation

Televisual Context Genre Homonormativity in OITNB Diversity of Representation Sex, Violence and Family Ties Homosocial Families and Heteronormative Failure Conclusion References

Pennsatucky’s Teeth and the Persistence of Class

Intersectionality and Overdetermination Overdetermination of “White Trash” Teeth: The Final Frontier of Class References

Pleasure and Power Behind Bars

Resisting Necropower with Sexuality

Sensitizing Concept: Necropolitics The Power of Pleasure The Power of/for Family The Power of Sexual Creativity: The Case of The Time Hump Chronicles Conclusion References

Anatomy of a Binge

Abject Intimacy and the Televisual Form

It’s Not the Internet, It’s Netflix Intimate Matters, or, So Much Peeing “It ain’t just about the food” Faces, Voices Unpacking the Trojan Horse Conclusion References

“You don’t feel like such a freak anymore”

Representing Disability, Madness and Trauma in Litchfield Penitentiary

Commodifying Madness for the Neurotypical Gaze Deviant Bodies and the Outer Limits of Desirability Inspoporn/Overcomer Tropes, Disability Pity and Subversive Possibilities Transgressing Shame Disability Invocations and the Pathologized Body (Re)Producing Trauma and Disability in the Prison-Industrial Complex Some Concluding Thoughts

Visibility and Power The Liberatory Power of a Disability Justice Analysis

Acknowledgments References

Piper Chapman’s Flexible Accommodation of Difference

Flexibility Is the New White: Centrality, Sameness and Being Down What Is New and What Is Not Flexible Accommodation as Managing the Crisis of Majoritarian Subjectivity Acknowledgments References

“Can’t fix crazy”

Confronting Able-Mindedness

Cultivating Madness and Challenging Ableism Surviving the Psychiatry Ward and Its Accompanying Stigma A Continuum of Vulnerability and the “Wedding Industrial Complex” Social Determinants of Health and the Depathologization of Depression Conclusion References

About the Contributors List of Names and Terms

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