Feel-Bad Postfeminism: Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture

by Catherine McDermott

Book Overview

In Feel-Bad Postfeminism, Catherine McDermott provides crucial insight into what growing up during empowerment postfeminism feels like, and outlines the continuing postfeminist legacy of resilience in girlhood coming-of-age narratives.

McDermott's analysis of Gone Girl (2012), Girls (2012-2017) and Appropriate Behaviour (2012) illuminates a major cultural turn in which the pleasures of postfeminist empowerment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350326712
• ISBN13: 9781350326712
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"