Feminist perspectives on Orange is the new black: thirteen critical essays

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Introduction: is orange the new black? / April Kalogeropoulos Householder and Adrienne Trier-Bieniek -- Chocolate and vanilla swirl, swi-irl": race and lesbian identity politics / Sarah E. Fryett -- We will survive: race and gender-based trauma as cultural truth-telling / Kalima Y. Young -- Jenji Kohan's trojan horse: subversive uses of whiteness / Katie Sullivan Barak -- "You don't look full ... Asia": the invisible and ambiguous bodies of Chang and Soso / Minjeong Kim -- Cleaning up your act: surveillance, queer sex and the imprisoned body / Yvonne Swartz Hammond -- The transgender tipping point: the social death of Sophia Burset / Hilary Malatino -- All in the (prison) family: genre mixing and queer representation / Kyra Hunting -- Pennsatucky's teeth and the persistence of class / Susan Sered -- Pleasure and power behind bars: resisting necropower with sexuality / Zoey K. Jones -- Anatomy of a binge: abject intimacy and the televisual form / Anne Moore -- "You don't feel like a freak anymore": representing disability madness and trauma in Litchfield Penitentiary / Lydia Brown -- Piper Chapman's flexible accommodation of difference / H. Rakes -- "Can't fix crazy": confronting able-mindedness / Sarah Gibbons.;"Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix's most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching. Academic conferences now routinely feature panels discussing the show, and the book on which it is based is popular course material at many universities"-- Introduction: is orange the new black? / April Kalogeropoulos Householder and Adrienne Trier-Bieniek -- Chocolate and vanilla swirl, swi-irl": race and lesbian identity politics / Sarah E. Fryett -- We will survive: race and gender-based trauma as cultural truth-telling / Kalima Y. Young -- Jenji Kohan's trojan horse: subversive uses of whiteness / Katie Sullivan Barak -- "You don't look full ... Asia": the invisible and ambiguous bodies of Chang and Soso / Minjeong Kim -- Cleaning up your act: surveillance, queer sex and the imprisoned body / Yvonne Swartz Hammond -- The transgender tipping point: the social death of Sophia Burset / Hilary Malatino -- All in the (prison) family: genre mixing and queer representation / Kyra Hunting -- Pennsatucky's teeth and the persistence of class / Susan Sered -- Pleasure and power behind bars: resisting necropower with sexuality / Zoey K. Jones -- Anatomy of a binge: abject intimacy and the televisual form / Anne Moore -- "You don't feel like a freak anymore": representing disability madness and trauma in Litchfield Penitentiary / Lydia Brown -- Piper Chapman's flexible accommodation of difference / H. Rakes -- "Can't fix crazy": confronting able-mindedness / Sarah Gibbons.