Working Women on Screen

Dr Ellie Tomsett is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Birmingham City University, UK.Dr Nathalie Weidhase is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Surrey, UK.Dr Poppy Wilde is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Birmingham City University, UK.

• 1. ​Introduction.- Section 1: Aesthetic Labour.- 2. “The person inside has experienced the most change…”: The labour of fitness, positivity and narratives of suffering.- 3. Selling Sunset… and my postfeminist sexual capital.- 4. ‘Millennial dumplings’ at work: Aesthetic and emotional labour in US sitcoms Shrill (2019- 21) and Mythic Quest (2020-).- 5 Making Nüzhubo: Commodified Intimacy and Gendered Labour in Chinese Live/Life Streaming.- Section 2: Politics and Policies.- 6. Representation of women peacebuilders in the Nigerian TV news media.- 7. Recuperating Women’s Care Work in 2010s Television Fictions of Nurses and Nursing in the Neoliberal NHS.- 8. “I took a dump on the glass ceiling”: Veep, (the Absence of) Competence and Populist Political Culture.- Section 3: Relationships and Power.- 9. “I am the highest paid showrunner in Television!” Shonda Rhimes’ work and influence in the media industry.- 10 Control and the fallacy of agency: negotiating neoliberal workplaces and toxic work environments.- 11. “You Deserve to Be Satisfied”: Women in Tech and the Affective Reconfiguration of the Workplace through Song in Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.- 12. Work it, robot! Exploring I’m Your Man [Ich bin dein Mensch] (2021) and The Trouble With Being Born (2020).- Section 4: Sex and Sexuality.- 13. Queering Mothering, Labour, and Illness in Tully.- 14. A quest for self? Work as an identity in the Japanese movie 37 seconds.- 15. Representing Sex Workers: The Experiences of Shae, Ros and Daisy in Game of Thrones (2011-2019).