What a Girl Wants?: Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism

ISBN-13: 9780415452281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 182 str.

Diane Negra

Opis

From domestic goddess to desperate housewife, this title explores the importance and centrality of postfeminism in contemporary popular culture. It analyses the models and anti-role models that include the chick flick heroines of princess films, makeover movies and time travel dramas, and celebrity brides and bravura mothers.

Spis treści

1: Introduction  2: Postfeminism, Family Values, and the Social Fantasy of the Hometown  3: Time Crisis and the New Postfeminist Life Cycle  4: Postfeminist Working Girls: New Archetypes of the Female Labor Market  5: Hyperdomesticity, Self-Care and the Well-Lived Life in Postfeminism