Over the past fifty years, feminism has revolutionized the lives of American women. Yet much of our popular culture seems to be set in an alternate universe filled with retro images of femininity: suburban Stepford wives, maniacal career women, and alluring amnesiacs. Feminism and Popular Culture investigates why contemporary media is being haunted by the ghosts of feminism’s past—and considers what this means for its future.
Over the past fifty years, feminism has revolutionized the lives of American women. Yet much of our popular culture seems to be set in an alternate universe filled with retro images of femininity: suburban Stepford wives, maniacal career women, and alluring amnesiacs. Feminism and Popular Culture investigates why contemporary media is being haunted by the ghosts of feminism’s past—and considers what this means for its future.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
REBECCA MUNFORD is a senior lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. She is the author of Decadent Daughters and Monstrous Mothers: Angela Carter and the European Gothic (2013), editor of Revisiting Angela Carter: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts (2006), and co-editor of Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration (2007). MELANIE WATERSis a senior lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Northumbria University. She is the editor of Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture (2011) and co-editor of Poetry and Autobiography (2011).
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword / by Imelda Whelehan Introduction: Wonder women : "all the world is waiting for you" "Postfeminism" or "ghost feminism"? Postfeminist haunts : working girls in and out of the urban labyrinth Haunted housewives and the postfeminist mystique Who's that girl? : slayers, spooks and secret agents The return of the repressed : feminism, fear and the postfeminist gothic Ghostscript
Foreword / by Imelda Whelehan Introduction: Wonder women : "all the world is waiting for you" "Postfeminism" or "ghost feminism"? Postfeminist haunts : working girls in and out of the urban labyrinth Haunted housewives and the postfeminist mystique Who's that girl? : slayers, spooks and secret agents The return of the repressed : feminism, fear and the postfeminist gothic Ghostscript
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