Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood [[electronic resource] /] / by A. Winch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790726703321
• Autore: Winch A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-137-60203-1; 1-349-34573-3; 1-137-31274-2
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.45/72
• Soggetti: Sociology; Culture—Study and teaching; Motion pictures and television; Motion pictures—History; Culture; Feminist theory; Gender Studies; Cultural and Media Studies, general; Screen Studies; Film History; Sociology of Culture; Feminism
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Girlfriend Culture; 1 The Girlfriend Gaze; Normative cruelties: Mean Girls; Who cares about letting go? Heat magazine; Gynaeopticon; 'How I went from fat to fit': Erotic capital; School girls to cougars; 2 BFF Co-Brands; Misogyny: Trinny and Susannah; Health: Skinny Bitch; How to be a girl: Fearne and Holly; 'I have been the same weight since I was fourteen'; Frenemies; 3 Strategic Sisterhoods; Girlfriend reflexivity: Sex and the City; Social capital; Carrie Bradshaw as self-brand; Plastic women: Lipstick Jungle; I'm hiding testicles under my skirt!': The masqueradeExclusive sisterhoods: Cashmere Mafia; 'Friendship is just another word for foreplay': The L Word; Fandom and co-producing media brands; 4 Womance; The girlfriend flick; Competition: In Her Shoes and Baby Mama; Bridezillas: Bride Wars and Sex and the City 1; Intergenerational: The Devil Wears Prada and The Women; Imperfect: Bridesmaids and Your Sister's Sister; 5 Making White Lives Better?; The Mammy: The Help and Sex and the City 1; Orientalism: Sex and the City 2; White feminism: 2 Broke Girls; Deconstructing girlfriendship: Girls; 6 CatfightBranded sociality: The Hills; Rivalry: Paris Hilton; Slut-shaming: Sorority Girls; Surveillance, comparison and the self-brand; 7 Class and British Reality Television; The contact zone: What Not to Wear; Loving meanness: Cook Yourself Thin; The other woman: Wife Swap; 8 The Friendship Market; Here comes the brand; Celebrity brands; Weight loss convergence; Facebook friends; Conclusion: Feminism, Friendshipand Conflict; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing on a range of media forms, Alison Winch reveals how women are increasingly encouraged to strategically bond by controlling each other's body image through 'the girlfriend gaze'.