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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780603003321

Titolo

Interrogating postfeminism [[electronic resource] ] : gender and the politics of popular culture / / edited by Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8223-4014-3

1-282-92357-9

9786612923579

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Collana

Console-ing passions

Altri autori (Persone)

TaskerYvonne <1964->

NegraDiane <1966->

Disciplina

305.4201

Soggetti

Feminist theory

Popular culture

Sex role

Mass media and women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-330) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

Feminist essays examining postfeminism in American and British popular culture.