Chick Lit and Postfeminism (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
"Chick  Lit and Postfeminismis both extremely smart and extremely clear, an all-too rare combination in academia. Harzewski treats the subject seriously and in-depth, but also with a sense of humor, of lightness, recognizing both that the genre is massively popular and influential and  also that it is ideologically complex."--Robert  A. Rushing, Associate Professor of Italian and  Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Author  ofResisting Arrest:Detective Fiction and Popular CultureThe explosion of a new type of novel by and for women -- dubbed,                 for better or worse,'chick lit' -- has provoked much controversy in the mainstream                 press and in the literary world. Despite all the commotion over the works by the                 latest mob of 'damned scribbling women,' as Nathaniel Hawthorne called women writers                 of the nineteenth century, little scholarly attention has focused on these texts.                 Harzewski's is one of the first full-length studies devoted to chick lit, and the                 most wide-ranging to date.Chick Lit and                 Postfeminismis written in a clear, readable style and is a solid                 book that will be read with interest and no doubt taken up and                 debated.--Tania Modleski, University of Southern California, author ofFeminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a                 "Postfeminist" AgeLike Carrie Bradshaw in her Manolo Blahniks,Chick Lit and Postfeminismsteps out in style.                 Smart, thoughtful, and well-written, it offers a historical understanding of this                 decidedly postfeminist genre, while offering insight into contemporary gender                 politics and femininity.--Janet McCabe, Birkbeck, University of London, and coeditor ofReading Sex and the CityChick Lit and Postfeminismis                 a bold and fascinating exploration of the 'most culturally visible form of                 postfeminist fiction' -- chick lit. Demanding and sometimes dizzying in its range                 and readings, the book moors the genre in the commodified context of women's lives                 in the twenty-first century, refashioning our understanding of this irreverent,                 ubiquitous, and (contrary to popular belief) important genre of                 fiction.--Mary Bly Eloisa James, Fordham University,New York                 Timesbest-selling author--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.