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- Title
Lily “White”: Commodity Racism and the Construction of Female Domesticity in The Incredible Shrinking Woman.
- Authors
ROBERTS, CHADWICK
- Abstract
The article examines women's domestic labor within the home and looks at the roles domestic work and consumption play in constructing racialized identities for African American female domestic workers and their female employers. The author uses the 1981 film "The Incredible Shrinking Woman," directed by Joel Schumacher, to examine these racialized distinctions within a film and the larger culture. The representation of the instability of the white body in the film is examined. The author also explores how the film predicted the global market in female domestic workers which has emerged in contemporary times.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOUSEHOLD employees in motion pictures; RACIAL identity of African Americans; INCREDIBLE Shrinking Woman, The (Film); CONSUMPTION (Economics); AFRICAN American women in motion pictures
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 2010, Vol 43, Issue 4, p801
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-5931.2010.00771.x