You've come a long way, baby
Subtitle: women, politics, and popular culture
By: edited by Lilly Goren.
Contributors: Goren, Lilly J.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780813125442
Subjects: Women in popular culture -- United States; Women in mass media; Women -- United States -- Social conditions; Feminism -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sacrificing at the altar of beauty : extreme makeover and the classical logic of transformation / Emily Askew; title: Smart, funny and romantic? : femininity and feminist gestures in chick flicks / Laurie Naranch; title: From Madonna to Lilith and back again : women, feminists, and pop music in the United States / Rachel Henry Currans-Sheehan; title: The reformer and her work : the female police procedural, transgression and alienation / Peter Josephson and Rebecca Colton Josephson; title: The city, the suburbs and stars hollow : the return of the evening "soap opera" / Linda Beail; title: Why are all the presidents men? : televisual presidents and patriarchy / Linda Horwitz and Holly Swyers; title: Baby lit : feminist response to the cult of true motherhood / Melissa Buis Michaux and Leslie Dunlap; title: Supermom : the age of the pregnant assassin / Lilly Goren; title: The mommy track vs. having it all : the reality of the modern workplace / Julia Wilson; title: It was chick lit all along : the gendering of a genre / Cecilia Konchar Farr; title: The personal is political : women's magazine's for the "I'm-not-a-feminist-but" generation / Natalie Fuehrer Taylor; title: The money, honey : the rise of the female anchor, the female reporter and women in the news business / Mary Ann McHugh.