Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture

By: Waters, Melanie

Acknowledgements Note on the Contributors Introduction PART I: GENERATIONS Nancy Meyers and Popular Feminism; K.Glitre 'I'm nothing like you!' Postfeminist Generationalism and Female Stardom in the Contemporary Chick Flick; S.Cobb Alias: Quality Television and the New Woman Professional; R.White The Horrors of Home: Feminism and Femininity in the Suburban Gothic; M.Waters PART II: SEX AND SEXUALITY Bad Girls in Crisis: The New Teenage Femme Fatale; K.Farrimond Butch Lesbians: Televising Female Masculinity; H.Fenwick 'Challenging and Alternative': Screening Queer Girls on Channel 4; M.Zeller-Jacques PART III: THE MAKEOVER Under the Knife: Feminism and Cosmetic Surgery in Contemporary Culture; S.Genz Imperialist Projections: Manners, Makeovers, and Models of Nationality; B.R.Weber Femininity Repackaged: Postfeminism and Ladette to Lady; A.Smith Performing Postfeminist Identities: Gender, Costume and Transformation in Teen Cinema; S.Gilligan PART IV: VIOLENCE Return of the 'Angry Woman': Authenticating Female Physical Action in Contemporary Cinema; L.Purse Negotiating Shifts in Feminism: The 'Bad' Girls of James Bond; L.Funnell A Pathological Romance: Authority, Expert Knowledge and the Postfeminist Profiler; L.Steenberg 'A Caligula-like despot': Matriarchal Tyranny in The Sopranos; A.Gething Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349310980
• ISBN13: 9781349310982
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"