You've come a long way, baby : women, politics, and popular culture / edited by Lilly J. Goren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goren, Lilly J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in popular culture--United States.

Women in popular culture.

United States.

Women in mass media.

Women--United States--Social conditions.

Women.

Social conditions.

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

ix, 289 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

You have come a long way, baby

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2009]

Contents:

Extreme makeover and the classical logic of transformation / Emily Askew

Smart, funny and romantic? : femininity and feminist gestures in chick flicks / Laurie Naranch

From Madonna to Lilith and back again : women, feminists, and pop music in the United States / Rachel Henry Currans-Sheehan

The reformer and her work : transgression, alienation, and feminine identity in the police procedural / Peter Josephson and Rebecca Colton Josephson

The city, the suburbs, and stars hollow : the return of the evening soap opera / Linda Beail

Why are all the presidents men? : televisual presidents and patriarchy / Linda Horwitz and Holly Swyers

Baby lit : feminist response to the cult of true motherhood / Melissa Buis Michaux and Leslie Dunlap

Supermom : the age of the pregnant assassin / Lilly J. Goren

The mommy track versus having it all : the reality of the modern workplace / Julia Wilson

It was chick lit all along : the gendering of a genre / Cecilia Konchar Farr

The personal is political : women's magazines for the "I'm-not-a-feminist-but" generation / Natalie Fuehrer Taylor

The money, honey : the rise of the female anchor, the female reporter and women in the news business / Mary McHugh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index.

ISBN:

9780813125442

0813125448

OCLC:

261177656