Interrogating postfeminism : gender and the politics of popular culture

Tasker, Yvonne, 1964- (Added Author). Negra, Diane, 1966- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780822340324 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780822340140 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: vi, 344 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
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Publisher: Durham, [N.C.] : Duke University Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-330) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Feminist Politics and Postfeminist Culture / Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra -- 1. Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime / Angela McRobbie -- 2. Mass Magazine Cover Girls: Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and Postfeminism's Daughters / Sarah Projansky -- 3. Living a Charmed Life: The Magic of Postfeminist Sisterhood / Hannah E. Sanders -- 4. "I Hate My Job, I Hate Everybody Here": Adultery, Boredom, and the "Working Girl" in Twenty-First-Century American Cinema / Suzanne Leonard -- 5. Remapping the Resonances of Riot Grrrl: Feminisms, Postfeminisms, and "Processes" of Punk / Anna Feigenbaum -- 6. Killing Bill: Rethinking Feminism and Film Violence / Lisa Coulthard -- 7. Queer Eye for the Straight Guise: Camp, Postfeminism, and the Fab Five's Makeovers of Masculinity / Steven Cohan -- 8. What's Your Flava? Race and Postfeminism in Media Culture / Sarah Banet-Weiser -- 9. The Fashion Police: Governing the Self in What Not to Wear / Martin Roberts -- 10. Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African American Women in Post-feminist and Post-Civil-Rights Popular Culture / Kimberly Springer -- 11. Subjects of Rejuvenation: Aging in Postfeminist Culture / Sadie Wearing.