Feminism in Popular Culture

Book Overview

What is the relationship between feminism and popular culture? Has there been a 'backlash' against feminism or is feminism now part of contemporary 'commonsense'? Can feminism learn from popular culture?

Feminism in Popular Culture explores these questions through a diverse range of texts and sites - from news coverage, The Vagina Monologues, the Scream trilogy, Ally McBeal and Sex and the City, sex documentaries and TV cooks, to breakdancing, beauty salons and computer game-playing.

Feminism in Popular Culture does not assume that popular culture could benefit from a feminist 'makeover'. Rather, it analyses how different meanings of feminism have been negotiated within popular culture - how popular culture has made sense of feminism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845202236
• ISBN13: 9781845202231
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"