Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular CultureDiane Negra, Yvonne Tasker Duke University Press, 2007 M11 2 - 360 pages This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the “girling” of aging women in productions such as the movie Something’s Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger. Broadly defined, “postfeminism” encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has accomplished its goals and is now a thing of the past. It presumes that women are unsatisfied with their (taken for granted) legal and social equality and can find fulfillment only through practices of transformation and empowerment. Postfeminism is defined by class, age, and racial exclusions; it is youth-obsessed and white and middle-class by default. Anchored in consumption as a strategy and leisure as a site for the production of the self, postfeminist mass media assumes that the pleasures and lifestyles with which it is associated are somehow universally shared and, perhaps more significantly, universally accessible. Essays by feminist film, media, and literature scholars based in the United States and United Kingdom provide an array of perspectives on the social and political implications of postfeminism. Examining magazines, mainstream and independent cinema, popular music, and broadcast genres from primetime drama to reality television, contributors consider how postfeminism informs self-fashioning through makeovers and cosmetic surgery, the “metrosexual” male, the “black chick flick,” and more. Interrogating Postfeminism demonstrates not only the viability of, but also the necessity for, a powerful feminist critique of contemporary popular culture. Contributors. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Steven Cohan, Lisa Coulthard, Anna Feigenbaum, Suzanne Leonard, Angela McRobbie, Diane Negra, Sarah Projansky, Martin Roberts, Hannah E. Sanders, Kimberly Springer, Yvonne Tasker, Sadie Wearing |
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... Postfeminist Culture 1 Yvonne Tasker and diane negra 1. Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime 27 angela Mcrobbie 2. Mass Magazine Cover Girls: Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and Postfeminism's ...
... Postfeminism, and the Fab Five's Makeovers of Masculinity 176 sTeven cohan 8. What's Your Flava? Race and Postfeminism in Media Culture 201 sarah baneT-Weiser 9. The Fashion Police: Governing the Self in What Not to Wear 227 MarTin ...
... POSTFEMINIST CULTURE. Postfeminism. broadly encompasses a set of assumptions, widelydisseminated within popular media forms, having to do with the “pastness” of feminism, whether that supposed pastness is merely noted, mourned, or ...
... postfeminism is in many ways antithetical to the notion of an open society in which all members are valued in accordance with their distinct identities.3 Postfeminist culture's centralization of an affluent elite certainly entails an ...
... postfeminism draws on and sustains an invented social memory of feminist language as inevitably shrill, bellicose, and parsimonious. Thus, while feminism is constituted as an unwelcome, implicitly censorious presence, it is precisely ...
Contents
Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and Postfeminisms Daughters | |
The Magic of Postfeminist Sisterhood | |
Adultery Boredom and the Working Girl in TwentyFirstCentury American Cinema | |
Feminisms Postfeminisms and Processes of Punk | |
Rethinking Feminism and Film Violence | |
8 Whats Your Flava? Race and Postfeminism in Media Culture | |
Governing the Self in What Not to Wear | |
African American Women in Postfeminist and PostCivilRights Popular Culture | |
Aging in Postfeminist Culture | |
Bibliography | |
Contributors | |
Index | |
Camp Postfeminism and the Fab Fives Makeovers of Masculinity | |