Interrogating postfeminism : gender and the politics of popular culture / edited by Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-

Negra, Diane, 1966-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Console-ing passions.

Console-ing passions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Popular culture.

Sex role.

Mass media and women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Feminist essays examining postfeminism in American and British popular culture.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786612923579

9780822340140

0822340143

9781282923577

1282923579

OCLC:

271168161