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Book review: Feminism and popular culture: investigating the postfeminist mystique by Rebecca Munford and Melanie Waters

Montserrat, Jade (2014) Book review: Feminism and popular culture: investigating the postfeminist mystique by Rebecca Munford and Melanie Waters. LSE Review of Books (07 Mar 2014). Website.

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Abstract

"Feminism and Popular Culture: Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique." Rebecca Munford and Melanie Waters. September 2013. I.B. Tauris. --- Is feminism undead? Feminism and Popular Culture seeks to map the fraught and often unpredictable relationship between popular culture, feminism and postfeminism. From the shadowy city spaces of Mad Men and Homeland to the dystopic suburbia of The Stepford Wives and American Horror Story, the authors trace the maniacal career women, hysterical housewives and amnesiac daughters who roam the postfeminist landscape. Through recourse to these figures, they attept to illuminate postfeminism’s obsessive resuscitation of seemingly outdated models of femininity and ask why these should today be gilded with new appeal. Jade Montserrat recommends the book to pop culture fans and scholars alike.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information: © 2014 The Author
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited: 30 Jun 2014 12:40
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 19:14
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/57309

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