Pt. 1. The second wave -- 1. Sex and the single girl -- 2. Burnt offerings : the emergence of radical feminism -- 3. Mad housewives -- 4. Women's spaces : Marilyn French, Erica Jong and Marge Piercy -- 5. Forbidden fruit : sexuality -- Pt. 2. 'Post-feminism' and third wave feminism -- 6. Crashing of the superwoman : the 1980s -- 7. Where have all the feminists gone? : the anxiety of affluence -- 8. Hooray for the singletons! -- 9. Urban sex
Summary
The author provides an overview of popular feminist fiction from the late 1960s to the end of the 1990s, looking at how key feminist texts such as The Women's Room, Kinflicks and Fear of Flying have influenced popular contemporary works such as Bridget Jones' Diary and Sex and the City. Whelehan reconsiders the links between the politics of feminist thought, action and writing and creative writing over the past thirty years and suggests that even so-called post-feminist writing owes an enormous debt to feminism's second wave
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-231) and index