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Autore: | Winch A |
Titolo: | Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood [[electronic resource] /] / by A. Winch |
Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2013. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina: | 791.45/72 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
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'. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood |
ISBN: | 1-137-60203-1 |
1-349-34573-3 | |
1-137-31274-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910822739603321 |
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