Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular CultureThis 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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Postfeminism does not always offer a logically coherent account of gender and power , but through structures of forceful articulation and synergistic reiteration across media forms it has emerged as a dominating discursive system .
Postfeminism does not always offer a logically coherent account of gender and power , but through structures of forceful articulation and synergistic reiteration across media forms it has emerged as a dominating discursive system .
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With Wal - Mart and other low - cost chains , we see the triangulation of invisible ( and often offshore ) female workers , highly visible female consumers , and female celebrities for whom such chains offer opportunities for ancillary ...
With Wal - Mart and other low - cost chains , we see the triangulation of invisible ( and often offshore ) female workers , highly visible female consumers , and female celebrities for whom such chains offer opportunities for ancillary ...
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And , as Paul Gilroy writes with respect to the domestic makeover so central to British television schedules , " By exploring the process of changing private space and refining the ability to act there , these shows offer an implicit ...
And , as Paul Gilroy writes with respect to the domestic makeover so central to British television schedules , " By exploring the process of changing private space and refining the ability to act there , these shows offer an implicit ...
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In the new climate of fear and vulnerability that is ushering in a rollback of civil rights , both the state and exalted popular culture franchises offer fantasies of patriarchal protection . As Kathleen Karlyn has observed , neither ...
In the new climate of fear and vulnerability that is ushering in a rollback of civil rights , both the state and exalted popular culture franchises offer fantasies of patriarchal protection . As Kathleen Karlyn has observed , neither ...
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Thus , the volume expands the field of publications that have sought to map a trajectory of feminism and postfeminism and offer feminist critiques of contemporary gender politics , for example , Imelda Whelehan's Modern Feminist Thought ...
Thus , the volume expands the field of publications that have sought to map a trajectory of feminism and postfeminism and offer feminist critiques of contemporary gender politics , for example , Imelda Whelehan's Modern Feminist Thought ...
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| Title | Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture Console-ing Passions Console-ing passions : television and cultural power |
| Editors | Yvonne Tasker, Diane Negra |
| Contributors | Yvonne Tasker, Diane Negra, Lynn Spigel, Angela McRobbie |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Duke University Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0822340321, 9780822340324 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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