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When the term âpostfeminismâ entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines about the âdeath of feminism.â Those reports of feminismâs death may have been greatly exaggerated, and yet contemporary popular culture often conjures up a world in which feminism had never even been born, a fictional universe filled with suburban Stepford wives, maniacal career women, alluring amnesiacs, and other specimens of retro femininity.In Feminism and Popular Culture, Rebecca Munford and Melanie Waters consider why the twenty-first century media landscape is so haunted by the ghosts of these traditional figures that feminism otherwise laid to rest. Why, over fifty years since Betty Friedanâs critique, does the feminine mystique exert such a strong spectral presence, and how has it been reimagined to speak to the concerns of a postfeminist audience?To answer these questions, Munford and Waters draw from a rich array of examples from contemporary film, fiction, music, and television, from the shadowy cityscapes of Homeland to the haunted houses of American Horror Story. Alongside this comprehensive analysis of todayâs popular culture, they offer a vivid portrait of feminismâs social and intellectual history, as well as an innovative application of Jacques Derridaâs theories of âhauntology.â Feminism and Popular Culture thus not only considers how contemporary media is being visited by the ghosts of feminismâs past, it raises vital questions about what this means for feminismâs future.
Hardcover:
9780813567419 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 1, 2014, cover price $85.00
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9780813566535 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 1, 2014, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: When the term âpostfeminismâ entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines about the âdeath of feminism.
Product Description: AÂ timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream cinema and television, offering new insights into postfeminist media phenomena...read more
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9780230229655 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 15, 2011, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: AÂ timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture.
Product Description: This collection makes a critical and creative intervention into ongoing debates about the relationship between poetry and autobiography. Drawing on recent theories of life writing, the essays in the first part of this volume provide new analyses of works by a range of poets, dating from the early modern period to the present day...read more
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9780415617550 | Routledge, March 16, 2011, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This collection makes a critical and creative intervention into ongoing debates about the relationship between poetry and autobiography.
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