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Author Spiers, Emily, 1977- author.

Title Pop-feminist narratives : the female subject under neoliberalism in North America, Britain, and Germany / Emily Spiers
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Series Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Contents Cover; Pop-Feminist Narratives: The Female Subject Under Neoliberalism In North America, Britain, And Germany; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List Of Illustrations; List Of Abbreviations; Note About Translations; Introduction: Assembling The Narrative Threads; Third-Wave And Postfeminist Legacies; Pop-Feminism And Neoliberalism; Sexuality, Transgression, And Agency; 1: The Pop-Feminist Subject; Knowing What I (Do Not{Rpara} Know; There Is No 'I' In 'We'; Narrative Selves And Coherence; Gender Melancholia And Rage; Genre And Writing The Self
2: Postmodern Literature In North America: Tracing Pop-Feminism's Narrative Arcmaking Fiction With Kathy Acker; Shaping Ethical Narratives With Mary Gaitskill; Mainstreaming The Transgressive; Riot Grrrl And The Commodification Of Female Transgression; 3: North American Pop-Feminism In The Post-Digital Era; Autofiction And Selfhood: Maggie Nelson And Sheila Heti; 'Excellent Danger' And Queer Normalization: Michelle Tea; 4: British Pop-Feminism On The Literary Marketplace; Unpicking The Literary Threads; Market-Place Narratives; Literary 'Bad Girls' In Britain; Helen Walsh's Brass
Gwendoline Riley's Cold Waterscarlett Thomas's The End Of Mr. Y; Pop-Feminist Guides In Britain; 5: German Pop-Feminism And Generational Narratives; Literary Generations And German Pop-Literature; Charlotte Roche's Feuchtgebiete; Kerstin Grether's Zuckerbabys; Strategies Of Resistance In Alina Bronsky's Scherbenpark [Broken Glass Park]; Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Roadkill [Axolotl Roadkill] And Antonia Baum's Vollkommen Leblos Bestenfalls Tot [Perfectly Lifeless Preferably Dead]; Conclusion: Pop-Feminism And The Future; Bibliography; Manuscripts; Printed Sources; Primary Sources ; Secondary Sourcesfilms; Lectures, Audio, And Interviews; Index
Summary This volume explores the recent phenomenon of 'pop-feminism' and pop-feminist writing across North America, Britain, and Germany and examines what feminist politics look like in the twenty-first century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Feminism -- History -- 21st century
Feminism -- In mass media
Women -- North America.
Women -- Great Britain.
Women -- Germany
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Feminism
Women
Germany
Great Britain
North America
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192552846
0192552848
9780191860461
0191860468