gender and the politics of popular culture
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Tasker, Yvonne > [ed]
- Creator
- Negra, Diane > [ed]
- Contributor
- Wearing, Sadie
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- media, feminisme, theorieën, seksualiteit, sociale klasse, etniciteit, populaire cultuur, bundel
- Description
- This collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the “girling” of aging women in productions such as the movie Something’s Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger.This book broadly defines that feminism has accomplished its goals and is now a thing of the past. It presumes that women are unsatisfied with their legal and social equality and can find fulfillment only through practices of transformation and empowerment. Postfeminism is defined by class, age, and racial exclusions: it is youth-obsessed and white and middle-class by default. Anchored in consumption as a strategy and leisure as a site for the production of the self, postfeminist mass media assumes that the pleasures and lifestyles with which it is associated are somehow universally shared and, perhaps more significantly, universally accessible.