Margaret Henderson, Anthea Taylor

Postfeminism in Context

Women, Australian Popular Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism

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Produktbeschreibung

Providing a nuanced account of the varied ways in which feminism has been taken up in Australian media, Postfeminism in Context is essential reading for those interested gender, feminism, and the politics of representation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138894655
• ISBN-10: 1138894656
• Artikelnr.: 58058368

Autorenporträt

Margaret Henderson lectures in literary studies at the University of Queensland. She has published extensively on feminist culture and contemporary women's writing, including a book-length study of Australian feminist cultural memory, Marking Feminist Times. Anthea Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is author of three books in feminist literary and cultural studies, including Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Postfeminism In and Out of Context
Chapter One Chick Lit: Novels of Postfeminist Independence and Aspiration
Chapter Two Television Dramedies: Refiguring Gendered Intimacy and Postfeminist Kinship on the Small Screen
Chapter Three Women's Magazines: Dreamscapes of Postfeminist Abundance
Chapter Four YouTube beauty vlogs: Intimate publics and postfeminist confidence and care
Chapter Five Self-Help Books: Calculating Magic as Postfeminist Everyday Philosophy
Chapter Six Political Journalism: Women leaders, Constrained Power, and the Rhetoric of Post Gender
Conclusion Australian Postfeminism as Popular Feminism