Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gillis, Stacy; Hollows, Joanne

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection intervenes into the debates surrounding feminism's contentious relationship with domesticity in popular culture. The contributors touch on topics ranging from reality television shows like How Clean is Your House? to the figure of the maid in contemporary American cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135894276
• Artikelnr.: 42983552

Autorenporträt

Stacy Gillis is Lecturer in English at Newcastle University, UK. Her research interests are in feminist theory, detective fiction and cybertheory. The editor of The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded (2005) and co-editor of Third Wave Feminism (Rev. ed., 2007), her current work includes a book on the corpse in popular culture. Joanne Hollows is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is the author of Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture (2000) and Domestic Cultures (2008) and co-author of Food and Cultural Studies (2004). She has also co-edited a number of collections, including Feminism in Popular Culture (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Stacy Gillis and Joanne Hollows Part I: Feminism,
Post-Feminism and Domestic Femininity 1. Marguerite Patten, Television
Cookery and Post-war British Femininity Rachel Moseley 2. Feminism and the
Critique of Consumer Culture, 1950-1970 Lydia Martens 3. 'I am not a
housewife but...': Postfeminism and the Revival of Domesticity Stéphanie
Genz Part II: Figures of Domestic Femininity 4. Shall I Be Mother?
Motherhood and Domesticity in Popular Culture Wendy Parkins 5. The
Husbandless Home: Domesticity and the Young Widow in the Contemporary Novel
Sarah Gamble 6. Domestic Desire: Older Women in Six Feet Under and Brothers
& Sisters Kirstyn Gorton 7. Ready-Maid Postfeminism? The American
"Domestic" in Popular Culture Suzanne Leonard Part III: Domestic Femininity
in Reality and Lifestyle Television 8. Domestic Dystopias: Big Brother,
Wife Swap and How Clean is Your House? Anna Hunt 9. 'It's Just Sad':
Affect, Judgement and Emotional Labour in 'Reality' Television Viewing
Helen Wood, Beverley Skeggs and Nancy Thumin 10. Consuming Nigella Lise
Shapiro Sanders