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1 online resource (359 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Sexual Subjectivity and the Makeover Paradigm; 1 Pregnant Beauty: Maternal Femininities under Neoliberalism; 2 The Right to Be Beautiful: Postfeminist Identity and Consumer Beauty Advertising; 3 Spicing It Up: Sexual Entrepreneurs and The Sex Inspectors; 4 (M)Other-in-Chief: Michelle Obama and the Ideal of Republican Womanhood; 5 Scourging the Abject Body: Ten Years Younger and Fragmented Femininity under Neoliberalism; Part II Negotiating Postfeminist Media Culture |
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6 Are You Sexy, Flirty, Or A Slut? Exploring 'Sexualization' and How Teen Girls Perform/Negotiate Digital Sexual Identity on So7 'Feminism? That's So Seventies': Girls and Young Women Discuss Femininity and Feminism in America's Next Top Model; 8 Media 'Sluts': 'Tween' Girls' Negotiations of Postfeminist Sexual Subjectivities in Popular Culture; 9 Is 'the Missy' a New Femininity?; Part III Textual Complications; 10 Of Displaced Desires: Interrogating 'New' Sexualities and 'New' Spaces in Indian Diasporic Cinema; 11 Notes on Some Scandals: The Politics of Shame in Vers le Sud |
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12 The Limits of Cross-Cultural Analogy: Muslim Veiling and 'Western' Fashion and Beauty PracticesPart IV New Femininities: Agency and/as Making Do; 13 Through the Looking Glass? Sexual Agency and Subjectification Online; 14 Reckoning with Prostitutes: Performing Thai Femininity; 15 Migrant Women Challenging Stereotypical Views on Femininities and Family; 16 Negotiating Sexual Citizenship: Lesbians and Reproductive Health Care; Part V New Feminisms, New Challenges; 17 The New German Feminisms: Of Wetlands and Alpha-Girls |
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18 The Contradictions of Successful Femininity: Third-Wave Feminism, Postfeminism and 'New' Femininities19 Skater Girlhood: Resignifying Femininity, Resignifying Feminism; 20 Will These Emergencies Never End? Some First Thoughts about the Impact of Economic and Security Crises on Everyday Life; Index |
| Summary |
This collection of original essays looks at the way in which experiences and representations of femininity are changing, and explores the possibilities for producing 'new' femininities in the twenty-first century. The volume includes a Preface by leading feminist scholar Angela McRobbie |
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Print version record |
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Femininity.
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Neoliberalism.
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Feminist theory.
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Gender studies: women.
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Feminism & feminist theory.
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Age groups: adolescents.
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Media studies.
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History of ideas.
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Society.
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Femininity
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Feminist theory
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Neoliberalism
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Feministisk teori.
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Kvinnlighet.
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Nyliberalism.
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Gender studies: women & girls.
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Feminism & feminist theory.
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Age groups: adolescents.
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Media studies.
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History of ideas.
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Society.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scharff, Dr Christina
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| ISBN |
9780230294523 |
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0230294529 |
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