Imagining the Perfect Asian Woman Through Hate: Michelle Phan, Anti-Phandom, and Asian Diasporic Beauty Cultures

Autor:	Tony Tran
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Cultural Studies 0508 media and communications 050903 gender studies Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Beauty Art history 050801 communication & media studies Sociology 0509 other social sciences Computer Science Applications media_common
Zdroj:	Communication, Culture and Critique. 13:349-366
ISSN:	1753-9137 1753-9129
DOI:	10.1093/ccc/tcz057
Popis:	This article examines the predominately Asian American “Anti-Phandom” community on GuruGossiper.com to explore how anti-fans of YouTube star Michelle Phan engage with ideologies of beauty cultures within Asian diasporic contexts. For many, Anti-Phandom provides an online space where personal concerns about female Asian beauty standards can be negotiated through Michelle Phan. Within these conversations, I argue Anti-Phans display forms of resistance to Phan's postfeminist forms of female empowerment on racial and ethnic terms. However, these counters to Phan's notions of beauty also produce a rubric of the beautiful Asian woman which renders difference as ugly, creating idealized definitions of racial beauty and Asian/American cultures based on essentialized categories that police diasporic women.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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