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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484065303321

Autore

Bartlett Alison

Titolo

Flirting in the era of #MeToo : negotiating intimacy / / Alison Bartlett, Kyra Clarke, Rob Cover

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2019]

�2019

ISBN

3-030-15508-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 116 pages)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

302.340966

Soggetti

Interpersonal relations

Interpersonal relations - Moral and ethical aspects

Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Flirting, Scandal, Intimacy -- 2. #MeToo: Scandals and the Concept of Flirting -- 3. Playing with Scripts: Social Experiments and Reality Television -- 4. Flirting on Film: Boundaries and Consent, Visibility and Performance -- 5. Conclusion: Uncertain Times for Flirting.

Sommario/riassunto

“Flirting in the Era of #MeToo: Negotiating Intimacy is a gem of a book. It draws on a staggering range of disciplines: from etymology to psychoanalysis, from queer theory to film theory, and from cultural studies to sociology, and beyond. It’s the first academic publication to theorise #MeToo with such acuity, and I’m genuinely excited by how rich and important a critical intervention it makes.” —Emma Rees, Professor of Literature and Gender Studies, University of Chester, UK This book provides a contemporary review of the social practices and representations of flirting. In the wake of #MeToo, flirting has become entangled with stories of harassment and abuse that have generated both outrage and confusion. Nevertheless, this book argues that negotiating intimacy has always been an ambiguous social practice that can be risky and fraught, and examines how the presiding perception of flirting is constructed in contemporary cultural media. The book interrogates the relation between flirting and scandal, the kinds of



scripts available in popular culture, and relations to feminism and other current social theories around gender and sexuality. It asks the questions; how can desire be declared? How can playfulness be understood? And what kind of language is available to speak about these complexities? Drawing from a range of media forms such as public scandal, reality television, and teen film, Flirting in the Era of #MeToo argues that contemporary flirting is both provocative and conservative in its negotiation of an assemblage of shifting values, and considers possibilities for social innovation and change in light of these competing tensions. .