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Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique
Feminism and Popular Culture
Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique
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Feminism and Popular Culture maps the fraught and often unpredictable relationship between popular culture, feminism and postfeminism. From the shadowy city spaces of Mad Men and Homeland to the dystopic suburbia of The Stepford Wives and American Horror Story, the authors trace the maniacal career women, hysterical housewives and amnesiac daughters who roam the postfeminist landscape. Through recourse to these figures, they illuminate postfeminism's obsessive resuscitation of seemingly anachronistic models of femininity and ask why these should today be gilded with new appeal. Analysing postfeminism's historical slippages and haunted temporalities, the book not only takes account of the complex ways in which popular culture negotiates ongoing debates within and about feminism, but also explores its implications for feminism's future.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Wonder Women: 'All the world is waiting for you'
Chapter One: 'Postfeminism' or 'Ghost feminism'?
Chapter Two: Postfeminist haunts: working Girls in and out of the Urban Labyrinth
Chapter Three: Haunted housewives and the postfeminist mystique
Chapter Four: Who's that girl?: slayers, spooks and secret agents
Chapter Five: The return of the repressed: feminism, fear, and the postfeminist Gothic
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 30 Oct 2013 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781850438953 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Illustrations | 5 integrated bw |
| Dimensions | 216 x 138 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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