3. Living a Charmed Life: The Magic of Postfeminist Sisterhood

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Feminist Politics and Postfeminist Culture 1
5. 1. Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime 27
6. 2. Mass Magazine Cover Girls: Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and Postfeminism’s Daughters 40
7. 3. Living a Charmed Life: The Magic of Postfeminist Sisterhood 73
8. 4. “I Hate My Job, I Hate Everybody Here”: Adultery, Boredom, and the “Working Girl” in Twenty-First-Century American Cinema 100
9. 5. Remapping the Resonances of Riot Grrrl: Feminisms, Postfeminisms, and “Processes” of Punk 132
10. 6. Killing Bill: Rethinking Feminism and Film Violence 153
11. 7. Queer Eye for the Straight Guise: Camp, Postfeminism, and the Fab Five’s Makeovers of Masculinity 176
12. 8. What’s Your Flava? Race and Postfeminism in Media Culture 201
13. 9. The Fashion Police: Governing the Self in What Not to Wear 227
14. 10. Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African American Women in Postfeminist and Post-Civil-Rights Popular Culture 249
15. 11. Subjects of Rejuvenation: Aging in Postfeminist Culture 277 Sadie Wearing 277
16. Bibliography 311
17. Contributors 331
18. Index 335