Negra Diane - What A Girl Wants? Fantasizing The Reclamation Of Self In Postfeminism - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: From domestic goddess to desperate housewife What a Girl Wants? explores the importance and centrality of postfeminism in contemporary popular culture. Focusing on a diverse range of media forms including film TV advertising and journalism Diane Negra holds up a mirror to the contemporary female subject who finds herself centralized in commodity culture to a largely unprecedented degree at a time when Hollywood romantic comedies chick - lit and female - centred primetime TV dramas all compete for her attention and spending power. The models and anti - role models analyzed in the book include the chick flick heroines of princess films makeover movies and time travel dramas celebrity brides and bravura mothers Runaway Bride sensation Jennifer Wilbanks the sex workers flight attendants and nannies who maintain such a high profile in postfeminist popular culture the authors of postfeminist panic literature on dating marriage and motherhood and the domestic gurus who propound luxury lifestyling as a showcase for the achieved female self.
Title: What A Girl Wants? Fantasizing The Reclamation Of Self In Postfeminism
Author(s): Negra Diane
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415452281
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 8/20/2008
Category: Gender Studies, Gender Groups