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1 online resource (vi, 344 pages) : illustrations |
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Console-ing passions |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Console-ing passions.
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| Contents |
Postfeminism and popular culture : Bridget Jones and the new gender regime / Angela McRobbie -- Mass magazine cover girls : some reflections on postfeminist girls and postfeminism's daughters / Sarah Projansky -- Living a charmed life : the magic of postfeminist sisterhood / Hannah E. Sanders -- "I hate my job, I hate everybody here" : adultery, boredom, and the "working girl" in twenty-first-century American cinema / Suzanne Leonard -- Remapping the resonances of riot grrrl : feminisms, postfeminisms and "processes" of punk / Anna Feigenbaum -- Killing Bill : rethinking feminism and film violence / Lisa Coulthard -- Queer eye for the straight guise : camp, postfeminism, and the fab five's makeovers of masculinity / Steven Cohan -- What's your flava? race and postfeminism in media culture / Sarah Banet-Weiser -- The fashion police : governing the self in what not to wear / Martin Roberts -- Divas, evil black bitches, and bitter black women : African American women in postfeminist and post-civil-rights popular culture / Kimberly Springer -- Subjects of rejuvenation : aging in postfeminist culture / Sadie Wearing |
| Summary |
This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the "girling" of aging women in productions such as the movie Something's Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger. Broadly defined, "postfeminism" encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has accomplished its goals and is now a thing of the past. It presumes that women are unsatisfied with their (taken for granted) legal and social equality and can find fulfillment only through practices of transformation and empowerment. Postfeminism is defined by class, age, and racial exclusions; it is youth-obsessed and white and middle-class by default. Anchored in consumption as a strategy and leisure as a site for the production of the self, postfeminist mass media assumes that the pleasures and lifestyles with which it is associated are somehow universally shared and, perhaps more significantly, universally accessible. Essays by feminist film, media, and literature scholars based in the United States and United Kingdom provide an array of perspectives on the social and political implications of postfeminism. Examining magazines, mainstream and independent cinema, popular music, and broadcast genres from primetime drama to reality television, contributors consider how postfeminism informs self-fashioning through makeovers and cosmetic surgery, the "metrosexual" male, the "black chick flick," and more.--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-330) and index |
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English |
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EBL |
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Feminist theory.
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Popular culture
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Sex role.
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Mass media and women.
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Popular Culture
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Gender Role
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popular culture.
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sex role.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Feminist theory
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Mass media and women
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Popular culture
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Sex role
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Feminismus
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Frau
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Massenkultur
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Massenmedien
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Feminisme.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Populaire cultuur.
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Massamedia.
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Populärkultur -- postfeminism.
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Film -- radio & TV.
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Feministisk teori.
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Feministisk filmteori.
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Feministisk teori.
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Populärkultur.
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Kvinnor och massmedia.
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Feministisk filmteori.
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Kvinnor och film.
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Könsroller på film.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Tasker, Yvonne, 1964- editor.
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Negra, Diane, 1966- editor.
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| LC no. |
2007016094 |
| ISBN |
9780822390411 |
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0822390418 |
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1282923579 |
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9781282923577 |
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9786612923579 |
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6612923571 |
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