| Description |
1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Contents |
1. 'Postfeminism' or 'ghost feminism'? -- 2. Postfeminist haunts: working girls in and out of the urban labyrinth -- 3. Haunted housewives and the postfeminist mystique -- 4. Who's that girl? slayers, spooks and secret agents -- 5. The return of the repressed: feminism, fear and the postfeminist gothic |
| Summary |
Feminism and Popular Culture maps the fraught and often unpredictable relationship between popular culture, feminism and postfeminism. From the shadowy city spaces of Mad Men and Homeland to the dystopic suburbia of The Stepford Wives and American Horror Story, the authors trace the maniacal career women, hysterical housewives and amnesiac girls who roam the postfeminist landscape. Through recourse to these figures, they are able to illuminate postfeminism's obsessive resuscitation of seemingly anachronistic models of femininity and ask why these should today be gilded with new appeal. Analys |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 30, 2013) |
| Subject |
Feminism and mass media.
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Feminist theory.
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Women in popular culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Feminism and mass media.
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Feminist theory.
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Women in popular culture.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Waters, Melanie, 1979-
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| ISBN |
9780813567426 |
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0813567424 |
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9780857723000 |
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0857723006 |
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130617144X |
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9781306171441 |
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9780857734433 |
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0857734431 |
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