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The strength in this tightly argued book is how the author threads the needle through not only texts that clearly articulate the author's feminization thesis but those texts that profess not to.--Casey Ryan Kelly, author of Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film I'm excited about the 'big picture' the book presents and the way it reframes how we think about anti-consumerism--in literature, in film, but also in contemporary cultural and political debates. This is an important book; it's accessibly written; and it engages compelling issues that are important to scholars of literature and film, but also to feminists and cultural critics more broadly.--Erin A. Smith, author of What Would Jesus Read?: Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America Offering compelling re-readings of popular media and cultural criticism, each chapter takes up one aspect of the complex dynamic between gender, consumerism, and the quest for an authenticity that, according to the author, hasn't yet been defined.--CHOICE

"""The strength in this tightly argued book is how the author threads the needle through not only texts that clearly articulate the author's feminization thesis but those texts that profess not to.""--Casey Ryan Kelly, author of Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film ""I'm excited about the 'big picture' the book presents and the way it reframes how we think about anti-consumerism--in literature, in film, but also in contemporary cultural and political debates. This is an important book; it's accessibly written; and it engages compelling issues that are important to scholars of literature and film, but also to feminists and cultural critics more broadly.""--Erin A. Smith, author of What Would Jesus Read?: Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America ""Offering compelling re-readings of popular media and cultural criticism, each chapter takes up one aspect of the complex dynamic between gender, consumerism, and the quest for an authenticity that, according to the author, hasn't yet been defined.""--CHOICE"

The strength in this tightly argued book is how the author threads the needle through not only texts that clearly articulate the author's feminization thesis but those texts that profess not to. --Casey Ryan Kelly, author of Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film I'm excited about the 'big picture' the book presents and the way it reframes how we think about anti-consumerism--in literature, in film, but also in contemporary cultural and political debates. This is an important book; it's accessibly written; and it engages compelling issues that are important to scholars of literature and film, but also to feminists and cultural critics more broadly. --Erin A. Smith, author of What Would Jesus Read?: Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America Offering compelling re-readings of popular media and cultural criticism, each chapter takes up one aspect of the complex dynamic between gender, consumerism, and the quest for an authenticity that, according to the author, hasn't yet been defined. --CHOICE

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Sally Robinson is associate professor of English at Texas A&M University and author of Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis.

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