Overview

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.

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Author:   Dr Joanne Hollows (Independent Scholar, UK) ,  Rachel Moseley (University of Warwick, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.471kg
ISBN:  

9781845202224

ISBN 10:   1845202228
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 December 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of 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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Joanne Hollows is Principal Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She is author of Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture, co-author of Food and Cultural Studies and co-editor of Approaches to Popular Film and The Film Studies Reader. Rachel Moseley is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Growing Up with Audrey Hepburn and editor of Fashioning Film Stars.

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