Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of AusterityThis timely, necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession era media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes, including crisis masculinity, coping women, and postfeminist self renewal. Interpreting media forms as diverse as reality television, financial journalism, novels, lifestyle blogs, popular cinema, and advertising, the contributors reveal gendered narratives that recur