Fictional Feminism

How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-415-80345-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

This book focuses on the ways in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movement. Kim Loudermilk provides close readings of four best-selling novels and their film adaptations. According to Loudermilk, each of these novels contains explicitly feminist characters and themes, yet each presents a curiously ambivalent picture of feminism; these texts at once take feminism seriously and subtly undercut its most central tenets. This book argues that these texts create a kind of fictional feminism that recuperates feminism's radical potential, thereby lessening the threat it presents to the status quo.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loudermilk, Kim A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 Out of the ‘70s: Feminist Politics and Popular Fiction; Chapter 2 From The Women's Room to the Bedroom: Marilyn French's Feminist Fiction; Chapter 3 Sexual Suspects: Feminism According to Garp; Chapter 4 “Weak Sisters”: Feminism and The Witches of Eastwick; Chapter 5 “Consider the Alternatives”: Feminism and Ambivalence in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale; conclusion Into the ‘90s: Fictional Feminism and Feminist Politics;

Über Autor(innen)

Kim A. Loudermilk is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Planning at Emory University.