Single Women in Popular Culture

The Limits of Postfeminism
2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-27382-5
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 532 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

ANTHEA TAYLOR Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of (2008) and journal articles in feminist literary and cultural studies.