Yvonne Tasker / Diane NegraInterrogating Postfeminism
Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture
Herausgeber: Negra, Diane; Tasker, Yvonne
Yvonne Tasker is a professor of film and television studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema and Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema as well as the editor of Action and Adventure Cinema. Diane Negra is a professor of film and television studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom; the editor of The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture; and a coeditor of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, the latter two of which are both also published by Duke University Press.
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Feminist Politics and Postfeminist Culture / Yvonne Tasker
and Diane Negra 1
1. Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender
Regime / Angela McRobbie 27
2. Mass Magazine Cover Girls: Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and
Postfeminism’s Daughters / Sarah Projansky 40
3. Living a Charmed Life: The Magic of Postfeminist Sisterhood / Hannah E.
Sanders 73
4. “I Hate My Job, I Hate Everybody Here”: Adultery, Boredom, and the
“Working Girl” in Twenty-First Century American Cinema / Suzanne Leonard
100
5. Remapping the Resonances of Riot Grrrl: Feminisms, Postfeminisms, and
“Processes” of Punk / Anna Feigenbaum 132
6. Killing Bill: Rethinking Feminism and Film Violence / Lisa Coulthard 153
7. Queer Eye for the Straight Guise: Camp, Posfeminism, and the Fab Five’s
Makeovers of Masculinity / Steven Cohan 176
8. What’s Your Flava? Race and Postfeminism in Media Culture / Sarah
Banet-Weiser 201
9. The Fashion Police: Governing the Self in What Not to Wear / Martin
Roberts 227
10. Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African American
Women in Postfeminist and Post-Civil-Rights Popular Culture / Kimberly
Springer 249
11. Subjects of Rejuvenation: Aging in Postfeminist Culture / Sadie Wearing
277
Bibliography 311
Contributors 331
Index 355
