Catherine Mcdermott

Feel-Bad Postfeminism (eBook, ePUB)

Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Feel-Bad Postfeminism, Catherine McDermott provides crucial insight into what growing up during empowerment postfeminism feels like, and outlines the continuing postfeminist legacy of resilience in girlhood coming-of-age narratives.

McDermott's analysis of Gone Girl (2012), Girls (2012-2017) and Appropriate Behaviour (2012) illuminates a major cultural turn in which the pleasures of postfeminist empowerment curdle into a profound sense of rage and resentment. By contrast, close examination of The Hunger Games (2008-2010), Girlhood (2014) and Catch Me Daddy (2014) reveals that contemporary genres are increasingly constructing girls as uniquely capable of resiliently overcoming and adapting to unforgiving social conditions.

She develops an affective vocabulary to better understand contemporary modes of defiant, transformative and relational resilience, as well as a framework through which to expand on further modes that are specific to the genres they emerge within. Overall, the book suggests that exploration of the affective dimensions of girls' and women's culture can offer new insights into how coming-of-age, girlhood and femininity are culturally produced in the aftermath of postfeminism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350224995
• Artikelnr.: 63634408

Autorenporträt

Catherine McDermott is Associate Lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She teaches cultural and critical theory and her work has been published in Reading Lena Dunham's Girls (2017) and the journal Girlhood Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Introduction Introduction Part I: Impasse 1. Feel-Bad
Postfeminism in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl 2. Postfeminist Impasse and Cruel
Optimism in Lena Dunham's Girls 3. 'Being without a cliché to hold onto can
be a lonely experience': Generic Isolation in Appropriate Behaviour Part
II: Resilience 4. Suffering, Resilience and Defiance in The Hunger Games
5. Relationality and Transformation in Girlhood 6. Feel-Bad Femininity in
Catch Me Daddy Conclusion References Index