TY - JOUR
T1 - Comfort feminism and the cruelty of a ‘post-racial’ monarchy in Britain
AU - Dowler, Lorraine
AU - Bartos, Ann E.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the following individuals for their thoughtful comments and support throughout the writing of this manuscript: Margaret Walton-Roberts, LaToya Eaves, Banu Gökariksel, Mike Hawkins, Chris Neubert, and Sara Smith. We are especially grateful to the three anonymous reviewers for their critical interventions.
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This paper explores the entanglements of love and cruelty in the publicity of the 2018 wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. We suggest that the wedding failed to inch closer toward a ‘post-racialized’ society. Rather, the wedding and public (but superficial) embracing of Markle promoted a ‘comfort feminism’ which obscured the mundane white supremacy and sexism of modern Britain. The paper concludes with a brief afterward which discusses the legacy of the royal wedding in the context of the social, political, and cultural challenges wrought by the intersections of the global pandemic and structural racism.
AB - This paper explores the entanglements of love and cruelty in the publicity of the 2018 wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. We suggest that the wedding failed to inch closer toward a ‘post-racialized’ society. Rather, the wedding and public (but superficial) embracing of Markle promoted a ‘comfort feminism’ which obscured the mundane white supremacy and sexism of modern Britain. The paper concludes with a brief afterward which discusses the legacy of the royal wedding in the context of the social, political, and cultural challenges wrought by the intersections of the global pandemic and structural racism.
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U2 - 10.1080/0966369X.2021.1997939
DO - 10.1080/0966369X.2021.1997939
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121715082
SN - 0966-369X
VL - 30
SP - 542
EP - 549
JO - Gender, Place and Culture
JF - Gender, Place and Culture
IS - 4
ER -
