Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms, this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which postfeminism limits the representation of single women in popular culture.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction Theorizing Women’s Singleness – Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Representation From the Second Wave to Postfeminism – Single Women in Popular Discourse Spinsters and Singletons – Bridget Jones’s Diary and its Cultural Reverberations Desperate and Dateless TV – Making Over the Single Woman Self-Help and the Single Girl – From Salvation to Celebration Blogging Solo – Women Refiguring Singleness Bibliography IndexOm författaren
ANTHEA TAYLOR Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author ofMediating Australian Feminism (2008) and journal articles in feminist literary and cultural studies.
Språk Engelska ● Formatera PDF ● Sidor 242 ● ISBN 9780230358607 ● Filstorlek 1.2 MB ● Utgivare Palgrave Macmillan UK ● Stad London ● Land GB ● Publicerad 2011 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 4969427 ● Kopieringsskydd Social DRM