Diane Negra

What a Girl Wants?

Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From domestic goddess to desperate housewife, What a Girl Wants explores the importance and centrality of postfeminism in contemporary popular culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780415452281
• ISBN-10: 0415452287
• Artikelnr.: 23893484

Autorenporträt

Diane Negra is Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture at University College Dublin. She is author of Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom, editor of The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture and co-editor of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema and Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction 2: Postfeminism
Family Values
and the Social Fantasy of the Hometown 3: Time Crisis and the New Postfeminist Life Cycle 4: Postfeminist Working Girls: New Archetypes of the Female Labor Market 5: Hyperdomesticity
Self-Care and the Well-Lived Life in Postfeminism