What a girl wants? : fantasizing the reclamation of self in postfeminism

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Title:

What a girl wants? : fantasizing the reclamation of self in postfeminism

Author:

Negra, Diane, 1966-

ISBN:

9780415452274

9780415452281

Personal Author:

Negra, Diane, 1966-

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Physical Description:

viii, 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Introduction -- Postfeminism, family values, and the social fantasy of the hometown -- Time crisis and the new postfeminist lifecycle -- Postfeminist working girls : new archetypes of the female labor market -- Hyperdomesticity, self-care, and the well-lived life in postfeminism.

Subject Term:

Feminist theory.

Popular culture.

Sex role.

Mass media and women.

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Summary

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 primetimenbsp;TV dramas all compete for her attention and spending power.

The models and anti-role models analyzed in the booknbsp;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 asnbsp;a showcase for the 'achieved' female self.