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