Kim a Loudermilk

Fictional Feminism

How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the ways in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movement. Kim Loudermilk provides close readings of four best-selling novels and their film adaptations. According to Loudermilk, each of these novels contains explicitly feminist characters and themes, yet each presents a curiously ambivalent picture of feminism; these texts at once take feminism seriously and subtly undercut its most central tenets. This book argues that these texts create a kind of "fictional feminism" that recuperates feminism's radical potential, thereby lessening the threat it presents to the status quo.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415968065
• ISBN-10: 0415968062
• Artikelnr.: 22099921

Autorenporträt

Kim A. Loudermilk is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Planning at Emory University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Out of the '70s: Feminist Politics and Popular Fiction
Chapter 2 From The Women's Room to the Bedroom: Marilyn French's Feminist Fiction
Chapter 3 Sexual Suspects: Feminism According to Garp
Chapter 4 "Weak Sisters": Feminism and The Witches of Eastwick
Chapter 5 "Consider the Alternatives": Feminism and Ambivalence in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
conclusion Into the '90s: Fictional Feminism and Feminist Politics