Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture

by Yvonne Tasker

Book Overview

This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the "girling" of aging women in productions such as the movie Something's Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger. Broadly defined, "postfeminism" encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has accomplished its goals and is now a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822340321
• ISBN13: 9780822340324
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"