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why women are in refrigerators and other stories
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Griffin, Penny
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- populaire cultuur, feminisme, consumenten, seksualiteit, media, seksisme
- Description
- This book explores the connexxions between the politics of feminism and the representational practices of contemporary popular culture, examining how feminism is ‘made sensible’ through visual imagery and popular culture representations. It investigates how popular culture is produced, represented and consumed to reproduce the conditions in which feminism is valued or dismissed, and asks whether antifeminism exists in commodity form and is commercially viable.
the new woman's fiction
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ferriss, Suzanne > [ed]
- Creator
- Young, Mallory > [ed]
- Contributor
- Benstock, Shari
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2006
- Thesaurus
- romans, alleenstaanden, media, populaire cultuur, seksualiteit, consumenten, zwarte vrouwen, feminisme, heteroseksualiteit, bundel
- Description
- From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the City that captured it on screen, 'chick lit' has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single, urban characters who struggle with the same life challenges, publishers have earned millions and even created separate imprints dedicated to the genre. Not surprisingly, some highbrow critics have dismissed chick lit as trashy fiction, but fans have argued that it is as empowering as it is entertaining. .The contributors in this volume explore the characteristics that cause readers to attach the moniker 'chick' to a particular book and what, if anything, distinguishes the category of chick lit from the works of Jane Austen on one end and Harlequin romance novels on the other. They critique the genre from a range of critical perspectives, considering its conflicted relationship with feminism and postfeminism, heterosexual romance, body image, and consumerism. The fourteen original essays gathered here also explore such trends and subgenres as 'Sistah Lit,' 'Mommy Lit,' and 'Chick Lit Jr.,' as well as regional variations.
undressing the erotic thriller
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Martin, Nina K.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- films, feminisme, vrouwelijkheid, pornografie, seksualiteit, heteroseksualiteit, consumenten
- Description
- Nina Martin argues that pornography makes a valuable resource for investigating female sexuality and gender construction. In this study she uses erotic thrillers to examine the construction of female desire. The heroines of these productions have overtly sexual adventures, often dabbling in a variety of sex work positions--including call girl, stripper, and exotic dancer--to get in touch with their sexual desires. Martin explains, however, that the films highlight a fundamental tension between endorsing an empowered, sexually experienced female heroine ('the sexy bad girl') and reinforcing more conventional, constructed standards that limit the acceptable forms of feminine sexuality. So while the sexual explicitness of the films acknowledges the increasing appeal of pornography to female heterosexual viewers, erotic thrillers remain couched in romanticized narratives and settings that speak to very traditional understandings of femininity and desire. By analyzing the way the specifics of this hybrid genre have been shaped by pop cultural products targeting women, including soap operas, women's magazines, and talk shows, Sexy Thrills unpacks the construction of female desire to reveal how sex is marketed to heterosexual women.
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