Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood [electronic resource] /
Winch, A.author.
From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing on a range of media forms, Alison Winch reveals how women are increasingly encouraged to strategically bond by controlling each other's body image through 'the girlfriend gaze'.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Girlfriend Culture; 1 The Girlfriend Gaze; Normative cruelties: Mean Girls; Who cares about letting go? Heat magazine; Gynaeopticon; 'How I went from fat to fit': Erotic capital; School girls to cougars; 2 BFF Co-Brands; Misogyny: Trinny and Susannah; Health: Skinny Bitch; How to be a girl: Fearne and Holly; 'I have been the same weight since I was fourteen'; Frenemies; 3 Strategic Sisterhoods; Girlfriend reflexivity: Sex and the City; Social capital; Carrie Bradshaw as self-brand; Plastic women: Lipstick Jungle
I'm hiding testicles under my skirt!': The masqueradeExclusive sisterhoods: Cashmere Mafia; 'Friendship is just another word for foreplay': The L Word; Fandom and co-producing media brands; 4 Womance; The girlfriend flick; Competition: In Her Shoes and Baby Mama; Bridezillas: Bride Wars and Sex and the City 1; Intergenerational: The Devil Wears Prada and The Women; Imperfect: Bridesmaids and Your Sister's Sister; 5 Making White Lives Better?; The Mammy: The Help and Sex and the City 1; Orientalism: Sex and the City 2; White feminism: 2 Broke Girls; Deconstructing girlfriendship: Girls
6 CatfightBranded sociality: The Hills; Rivalry: Paris Hilton; Slut-shaming: Sorority Girls; Surveillance, comparison and the self-brand; 7 Class and British Reality Television; The contact zone: What Not to Wear; Loving meanness: Cook Yourself Thin; The other woman: Wife Swap; 8 The Friendship Market; Here comes the brand; Celebrity brands; Weight loss convergence; Facebook friends; Conclusion: Feminism, Friendshipand Conflict; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing on a range of media forms, Alison Winch reveals how women are increasingly encouraged to strategically bond by controlling each other's body image through 'the girlfriend gaze'.
Sociology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures—History.
Culture.
Feminist theory.
Gender Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Screen Studies.
Film History.
Sociology of Culture.
Feminism.