ABSTRACT
This chapter articulates six White feminine performances to create a theoretical framework of White femininity to signify performative roles White women are cast into and can/do choose to perform. It is a self-reflexive cultural critique that contextualizes these six performances by locating their racial performatives in cultural contexts and pointing to their embodiments of whiteness through scholarship derived from these cultural framings. The chapter focuses on the feminist of color scholarship that details the controlling tropes constructed on their bodies by White patriarchy. The Good White Female Employee's performances provide embodied acts of whiteness that gain her power within the workforce, and, she is allotted more economical employment status. The White Pinup's performance is the most fragile archetype to maintain because it is intensely rooted on matching the specific White idealized body. The White Trash Mama serves an imperative role to discipline and define failed White femininity. She exemplifies failed White motherhood and is a form of darkened White femininity.
