Negra / Tasker / Spigel Interrogating Postfeminism

Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9041-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Reihe: Console-ing passions: television and cultural power

Feminist essays examining postfeminism in American and British popular culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Negra, Diane

Tasker, Yvonne

Spigel, Lynn

Weitere Mitwirkende

McRobbie, Angela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Feminist Politics and Postfeminist Culture / Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra 1

1. Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime / Angela McRobbie 27

2. Mass Magazine Cover Girls: Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and Postfeminism’s Daughters / Sarah Projansky 40

3. Living a Charmed Life: The Magic of Postfeminist Sisterhood / Hannah E. Sanders 73

4. “I Hate My Job, I Hate Everybody Here”: Adultery, Boredom, and the “Working Girl” in Twenty-First Century American Cinema / Suzanne Leonard 100

5. Remapping the Resonances of Riot Grrrl: Feminisms, Postfeminisms, and “Processes” of Punk / Anna Feigenbaum 132

6. Killing Bill: Rethinking Feminism and Film Violence / Lisa Coulthard 153

7. Queer Eye for the Straight Guise: Camp, Posfeminism, and the Fab Five’s Makeovers of Masculinity / Steven Cohan 176

8. What’s Your Flava? Race and Postfeminism in Media Culture / Sarah Banet-Weiser 201

9. The Fashion Police: Governing the Self in What Not to Wear / Martin Roberts 227

10. Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African American Women in Postfeminist and Post-Civil-Rights Popular Culture / Kimberly Springer 249

11. Subjects of Rejuvenation: Aging in Postfeminist Culture / Sadie Wearing 277

Bibliography 311

Contributors 331

Index 355

Über Autor(innen)

Yvonne Tasker is a professor of film and television studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema and Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema as well as the editor of Action and Adventure Cinema.Diane Negra is a professor of film and television studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom; the editor of The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture; and a coeditor of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, the latter two of which are both also published by Duke University Press.