Twenty-first Century Feminism [electronic resource] : Forming and Performing Femininity /
Nally, C.editor.
Smith, A.editor.
This collection of essays considers the ways in which feminism is still an important issue in twenty-first century society. Looking at various forms of literature, media, and popular culture, the book establishes that contemporary images of femininity are highly contested, complex, and frequently problematic.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 'Strange Borrowing': Affective Neuroscience, Neoliberalism and the 'Cruelly Optimistic' Gendered Bodies of CrossFit; Panksepp's and Porges's affective neuroscience: Cross-species affect in the autonomic nervous system and the mammalian brain; The rhetoric of gender: Naked athletes in ESPN Magazine; Gendering CrossFit: Alternatives and rearticulations; 3 Big Sister TV: Bossiness, Bullying and Banter in Early Twenty-first Century Make-over Television; Bullying head girls as presenters
Humiliation? Every woman's gay best friendBanter and bullying; Conclusions; 4 Boredom and Reinvention for the Female Gaze Within Personal Fashion Blogs; Introduction; Online social spaces; For the female gaze; Being bored; Stylebubble and the process of identification; Themanrepeller and rejection of the male gaze; Carrie Bradshaw's legacy; Like me; Apathy, melancholy and boredom; Conclusion; 5 In Full View: Involuntary Porn and the Postfeminist Rhetoric of Choice; Introduction; Methods; Findings - narratives of choice; Conclusion; Limitations of the study and suggestions for further research
6 Miranda and Miranda: Feminism, Femininity and Performance7 Flexible Femininities? Queering Kawaii in Japanese Girls' Culture; Bodily politics of femininity, visibility and flexibility; Genealogy of Japanese girls' culture and reinventing the kawaii; Flexible 'n' quirky: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and her unusual world of kawaii; 8 'Whatever it is that you desire, halve it': The Compromising of Contemporary Femininities in Neo-Victorian Fictions; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This collection of essays considers the ways in which feminism is still an important issue in twenty-first century society. Looking at various forms of literature, media, and popular culture, the book establishes that contemporary images of femininity are highly contested, complex, and frequently problematic.
Sociology.
Feminist theory.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Communication.
Gender Studies.
Feminism.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Media Studies.