Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture » (1st Edition)

Yvonne Tasker is a professor of film and television studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema and Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema as well as the editor of Action and Adventure Cinema.

Diane Negra is a professor of film and television studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom; the editor of The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture; and a coeditor of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, the latter two of which are both also published by Duke University Press.

Feminist essays examining postfeminism in American and British popular culture.

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: Feminist Politics and Postfeminist Culture   Yvonne Tasker   Diane Negra     1
Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime   Angela McRobbie     27
Mass Magazine Cover Girls: Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and Postfeminism's Daughters   Sarah Projansky     40
Living a Charmed Life: The Magic of Postfeminist Sisterhood   Hannah E. Sanders     73
"I Hate My Job, I Hate Everybody Here": Adultery, Boredom, and the "Working Girl" in Twenty-First-Century American Cinema   Suzanne Leonard     100
Remapping the Resonances of Riot Grrrl: Feminisms, Postfeminisms, and "Processes" of Punk   Anna Feigenbaum     132
Killing Bill: Rethinking Feminism and Film Violence   Lisa Coulthard     153
Queer Eye for the Straight Guise: Camp, Postfeminism, and the Fab Five's Makeovers of Masculinity   Steven Cohan     176
What's Your Flava? Race and Postfeminism in Media Culture   Sarah Banet-Weiser     201
The Fashion Police: Governing the Self in What Not to Wear   Martin Roberts     227
Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African American Women in Postfeminist and Post-Civil-Rights Popular Culture   Kimberly Springer     249
Subjects of Rejuvenation: Aging in Postfeminist Culture   Sadie Wearing     277
Bibliography     311
Contributors     331
Index     335