£130.00
Publication Date:
1 Dec 2005
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 14 - 19 May 2024
Description
What is the relationship between feminism and popular culture? Has there been a 'backlash' against feminism or is feminism now part of contemporary 'commonsense'? Can feminism learn from popular culture? Feminism in Popular Culture explores these questions through a diverse range of texts and sites - from news coverage, 'The Vagina Monologues', the Scream trilogy, 'Ally McBeal' and 'Sex and the City', sex documentaries and TV cooks, to breakdancing, beauty salons and computer game-playing. Feminism in Popular Culture does not assume that popular culture could benefit from a feminist 'makeover'. Rather, it analyses how different meanings of feminism have been negotiated within popular culture - how popular culture has made sense of feminism.
Contents
Chapter One: Popularity Contests: The Meanings of Popular Feminism (Joanne Hollows, Nottingham Trent University, UK and Rachel Moseley, University of Warwick, UK) Part One: Inter-generational Relations of Feminism Chapter Two: Feminism in the News Sandra Lilburn (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia), Susan Magerey (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Susan Sheridan (Flinders University, Australia. Chapter Three: Feminism, Post-feminism, Martha, Martha and Nigella (Charlotte Brunsdon, University of Warwick, UK) Chapter Four: Feminism in the Classroom: Teaching Toward the Third Wave (Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, University of Oregon, USA) Part Two: Coming to Terms with Feminism Chapter Five: 'Ally McBeal', 'Sex and the City' and the Tragic Success of Feminism (Joke Hermes, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Chapter Six: 'Can I Go Home Yet? Feminism, Post-feminism and Domesticity' (Joanne Hollows) Chapter Seven: Sex Workers Incorporated (Jane Arthurs, University of the West of England, UK) Part Three: Negotiating and Resisting Feminisms Chapter Eight: Discipline and Pleasure: The Uneasy Relationship between Feminism and the Beauty Industry (Paula Black, University of Sussex, UK) Chapter Nine: Learning from B-Girls (Charla Ogaz, San Jose State University, USA) Chapter Ten: Illegitimate, Monstrous and Out There: Female 'Quake' Players and Inappropriate Pleasures (Helen Kennedy, University of the West of England, UK)
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