Authors: Sarah Projansky
ISBN-13: 9780814766903, ISBN-10: 0814766900
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: August 2001
Edition: New Edition
Sarah Projansky is assistant professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis and is co-editor of
Looking at popular culture from 1980 to the present, feminism appears to be "over": that is, according to popular critics we are in an era of "postfeminism" in which feminism has supposedly already achieved equality for women.
Not so, says Sarah Projansky.
The first study to address the relationship between rape and postfeminism, and one of the most detailed and thorough analyses of rape in 25 years,
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | A Feminist History of Rape in U.S. Film, 1903-1979 | 26 |
2 | The Postfeminist Context: Popular Redefinitions of Feminism, 1980-Present | 66 |
3 | Film and Television Narratives at the Intersection of Rape and Postfeminism | 90 |
4 | Feminism and the Popular: Readings of Rape and Postfeminism in Thelma and Louise | 121 |
5 | Persistently Displaced: Black Women in Rape Narratives | 154 |
6 | Talking Back to Postfeminism? Rape Prevention and Education Films and Videos | 196 |
Conclusion | 231 | |
Notes | 239 | |
Works Cited | 275 | |
Index of Film and Television Titles | 297 | |
General Index | 305 | |
About the Author | 311 |