New femininities
Subtitle: postfeminism, neoliberalism, and subjectivity
By: edited by Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780230223349
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Femininity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Feminist theory; Neoliberalism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Description: "This volume brings together twenty original essays on the changes and continuities in gender relations and intersecting politics of sexuality, race, class and location. The book is located in debates about contemporary culture at a moment of rapid technological change, global interconnectedness and the growing cultural dominance of neoliberalism and postfeminism. The collection traverses disciplines, spaces and approaches. It is marked by an extraordinarily wide focus, ranging from analyses of celebrity magazines and makeover shows to examinations of the experiences of young female migrants, 'mail order brides' and young women who repudiate feminism. The contributions are united by their attempts to think through the ways in which experiences and representations of femininity are changing in the twenty-first century. Are we seeing new femininities? Are neoliberalism and postfeminism constructing new identities and subjectivities? What kinds of analytic tools and cultural politics are needed to critically engage with the current moment? This book will be of interest to everyone studying gender, media or cultural studies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: Preface; A.McRobbie; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Introduction; C.Scharff & R.Gill; title: PART I: SEXUAL SUBJECTIVITY AND THE MAKEOVER PARADIGM; title: Pregnant Beauty: Maternal Femininities under Neoliberalism; I.Tyler; title: The Right to Be Beautiful: Postfeminist Identity and Consumer Beauty Advertising; M.M.Lazar; title: Spicing It Up: Sexual Entrepreneurs and The Sex Inspectors; L.Harvey & R.Gill; title: '(M)Other-in-Chief: Michelle Obama and the Ideal of Republican Womanhood'; L.Guerrero; title: Scourging the Abject Body: Ten Years Younger and Fragmented Femininity under Neoliberalism; E.Tincknell; title: PART II: NEGOTIATING POSTFEMINIST MEDIA CULTURE; title: Are You Sexy, Flirty, Or A Slut? Exploring 'Sexualisation' and How Teen Girls Perform/Negotiate Digital Sexual Identity on Social Networking Sites; J.Ringrose; title: 'Feminism? That's So Seventies': Girls and Young Women Discuss Femininity and Feminism in America's Next Top Model; A.L.Press; title: Media 'Sluts': 'Tween' Girls' Negotiations of Postfeminist Sexual Subjectivities in Popular Culture; S.Jackson & T.Vares; title: Is 'the Missy' a New Femininity?; J.Kim; title: PART III: TEXTUAL COMPLICATIONS; title: Of Displaced Desires: Interrogating 'New' Sexualities abd 'New' Spaces in Indian Diasporic Cinema; B.Bose; title: Notes on Some Scandals: The Politics of Shame in Vers le Sud; S.Wearing; title: The Limits of Cross-Cultural Analogy: Muslim Veiling and 'Western' Fashion and Beauty Practices; C.Pedwell; title: PART IV: NEW FEMININITIES: AGENCY AND/AS MAKING DO; title: Through the Looking Glass? Sexual Agency and Subjectification Online; F.Attwood; title: Reckoning with Prostitutes: Performing Thai Femininity; J.Haritaworn; title: Migrant Women Challenging Stereotypical Views on Femininities and Family; U.Erel; title: Negotiating Sexual Citizenship: Lesbians and Reproductive Health Care; R.Ryan-Flood; title: PART V: NEW FEMINISMS, NEW CHALLENGES; title: The New German Feminisms: Of Wetlands and Alpha-Girls; C.Scharff; title: The Contradictions of Successful Femininity: Third-Wave Feminism, Postfeminism and 'New' Femininities; S.Budgeon; title: Skater Girlhood: Resignifying Femininity, Resignifying Feminism; D.H.Currie, D.M.Kelly & S.Pomerantz; title: Will These Emergencies Never End? Some First Thoughts about the Impact of Economic and Security Crises on Everyday Life; G.Bhattacharyya; title: Index.