Fictional Feminism: How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality

By Kim A. Loudermilk

Book Overview

This book focuses on the ways in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movement. Kim Loudermilk provides close readings of four best-selling novels and their film adaptations. According to Loudermilk, each of these novels contains explicitly feminist characters and themes, yet each presents a curiously ambivalent picture of feminism; these texts at once take feminism seriously and subtly undercut its most central tenets. This book argues that these texts create a kind of fictional feminism that recuperates feminism's radical potential, thereby lessening the threat it presents to the status quo.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415803454
• ISBN13: 9780415803458
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"