This important and timely collection examines the troubling proliferation of anti-feminist language and concepts in contemporary media culture.

Michele White is a Professor of Internet and New Media Studies in the Department of Communication at Tulane University. She is author of The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship (2006), Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay (2012), Producing Women: The Internet, Traditional Femininity, Queerness, and Creativity (2015), and Producing Masculinity: The Internet, Gender, and Sexuality (2019). She co-edited the Feminist Media Histories issue on Genealogies of Feminist Media Studies and has written extensively about online cultures, including persistent digital authorizations of misogyny and hate. She is currently completing a monograph, Touch Screen Theory: Digital Devices and Feelings.

Diane Negra is a Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture at University College Dublin. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, she is the author, editor, or co-editor of twelve books including Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (2007); What a Girl Wants? Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism (2008), Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity (2014), and Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture (2021). She serves as Chair of the Irish Fulbright Commission.

An Introduction to and Critique of Anti-feminisms 1. Vernacular Feminism: Whiteness, Femininity, and Gendered Discourses of Independence in 1920s Popular Fictions 2. 'A Matter of Survival': The National Welfare Rights Organization, Black Feminism, and a Critique of Work" 3. Policing Integration, Punishing Sexual Freedom: Reactionary White Male Violence and the Politics of Rape in Civil Rights Exploitation Films 4. The Illegibility of Asian American Feminism On Screen 5. Something Else Besides a Feminist: Little Fires Everywhere and Hollywood Anti-feminism 6. White Feminism and White Tears as Bad Objects 7. Making Kin with Whiteness: Feminist Seductions of the Unwatchable 8. Beware the Dancing Communist: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Snap-lash, and the Politics of Embodied Joy 9. Natural Hair Matters: On Autobiographical Black Girlfriend Selfie Culture and Social Media