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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: A. WinchPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 3.992kg ISBN: 9780230348752ISBN 10: 0230348750 Pages: 222 Publication Date: 06 November 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Girlfriend Culture and the Gynaeopticon 1. The Girlfriend Gaze 2. BFF Co-Brands 3. Strategic Sisterhoods 4. Womance 5. Making White Lives Better? 6. Catfight 7. Class and British Reality Television 8. The Friendship Market Conclusion: Feminism, Friendship and Conflicted Feelings BibliographyReviewsAlison Winch explores the deep and complex emotions involved in female friendships and how these are exploited by brands, television formats and film narratives to tie us into a competitive and unequal consumer culture. By recognising the source of negative as well as positive emotions between women, a more effective political movement could be achieved to counteract this exploitation, she suggests. The book expertly updates and builds on postfeminist scholarly research through close attention to recent popular culture. It makes a compelling argument, challenging established assumptions about the way girls and women are portrayed and how we, in turn, respond. - Jane Arthurs, Middlesex University, UK Author InformationAlison Winch is a lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, UK. She has published on gender and sexuality in the Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies and Women's Writing, among others. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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