Single Women in Popular Culture [electronic resource] : The Limits of Postfeminism /
Taylor, A.author.
Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms, this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which postfeminism limits the representation of single women in popular culture.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Theorizing Women's Singleness - Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Representation -- From the Second Wave to Postfeminism - Single Women in Popular Discourse -- Spinsters and Singletons - Bridget Jones's Diary and its Cultural Reverberations -- Desperate and Dateless TV - Making Over the Single Woman -- Self-Help and the Single Girl - From Salvation to Celebration -- Blogging Solo - Women Refiguring Singleness -- Bibliography -- Index.
Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms, this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which postfeminism limits the representation of single women in popular culture.
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