New Femininities Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity

by Gill, Rosalind; Scharff, Christina

• ISBN13: 9780230223349
• ISBN10: 0230223346
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection of original essays looks at the way in which experiences and representations of femininity are changing, and explores the possibilities for producing 'new' femininities in the twenty-first century. The volume includes a Preface by leading feminist scholar Angela McRobbie.

Author Biography

Rosalind Gill is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at the Centre for, Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London, UK. She is author of Gender and the Media (2007) and co-editor of Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process (2009). Christina Scharff is Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at the Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College, London, UK. She is the author of Repudiating Feminism in the series' The Feminist Imagination - Europe and Beyond'.

Table of Contents

Preface; A.McRobbie
Introduction; C.Scharff & R.Gill
PART I: REPRESENTING NEW FEMININITIES
Regulating Femininity: Neo-Liberal Reinvention and Class Transformation in Make-Over Television; J.Ringrose
Television and the Missing Feminist Revolution; A.Press 
Raunch Culture, Postfeminist Sexuality and Celebrity; S.Gillis
The New Mrs Robinsons?: Transgenerational Sexual Configurations in Contemporary Cinema; S.Wearing
'Deliciously Consumable': Aesthetic Problems in the Mediation of Sex Trafficking; J.Arthurs
Mirrored Images of 'the Anorexic' and 'the Veiled Woman' in Feminist Theory and Popular Culture; C.Pedwell
Sexy Motherhood? The 'Missy' and the 'Yummy Mummy' as New Femininities; J.Kim& R.Gill
PART II: APPROPRIATING, NEGOTIATING AND RESISTING FEMININITIES
Negotiating New Femininities: Young Women and Intersectional Positionings; A.Phoenix
Negotiating Sexual Citizenship: Lesbians and Reproductive Health Care; R.Ryan-Flood
Dismantling Heteronormative Femininity in a Middle-Class Context?; C.Charles
Through the Looking Glass: Female Agency in Cyberspace; F.Attwood
'My Mother was a Whore!': Young Thai people's Dis/Identifications with Sexual Stereotypes of 'Thai-ness'; J.Haritaworn
Skateboarding as Transgressive Femininity: Resignifying Girlhood; D.Currie
PART III: FEMINISM, POSTFEMINISM AND NEW FEMININITIES
'Tears at Bedtime': The Television Make-Over Show and the Reconstruction of Femininity in Postfeminist Culture; E.Tincknell
Negotiating 'Feminism': Acknowledging Diversity in Young Women's Relationship with the 'Women's Movement'; C.Scharff
Third Wave Femininities; S.Budgeon
Conclusion; R.Gill& C.Scharff
Notes
Bibliography
Index