Feminism and Popular Culture : : Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique / / Rebecca Munford, Melanie Waters.

When the term “postfeminism” entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines about the “death of feminism.” Those reports of feminism’s death may have been greatly exaggerated, and yet contemporary popular culture often conjures up a world in which feminism h...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 26 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. Wonder Women: ‘All the world is waiting for you’
  • 1. ‘Postfeminism’ or ‘ghost feminism’?
  • 2. Postfeminist haunts: working girls in and out of the urban labyrinth
  • 3. Haunted housewives and the postfeminist mystique
  • 4. Who’s that girl? slayers, spooks and secret agents
  • 5. The return of the repressed: feminism, fear and the postfeminist gothic
  • Ghostscript
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index