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Informationen zum Autor Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra, eds. Klappentext Feminist essays examining postfeminism in American and British popular culture. Zusammenfassung Brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary "postfeminist" mass media culture! analyzing phenomena ranging from female action films to the "girling" of aging women in productions such as the movie Something's Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger. 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
