Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Will these emergencies never end?: some first thoughts about the impact of economic and security crises on everyday life / Gargi Bhattacharyya. Part V. Sexual Subjectivity and the Makeover Paradigm: Pregnant beauty: maternal femininities under Neoliberalism / Imogen Tyler; The right to be beautiful: postfeminist identity and consumer beauty advertising / Michelle M. Lazar; Spicing it up: sexual entrepreneurs and The Sex Inspectors / Laura Harvey and Rosalind Gill; (M)Other-in-Chief: Michelle Obama and the ideal of Republican womanhood / Lisa Guerrero; Scourging the abject body: Ten years younger and fragmented femininity under Neoliberalism / Estella Tincknell -- Part II. Negotiating Postfeminist Media Culture: Are you sexy, flirty, or a slut?: exploring 'Sexualisation' and how teen girls perform/negotiate digital sexual identity on social networking sites / Jessica Ringrose; 'Feminism? That's So Seventies': girls and young women discuss femininity and feminism in America's next top model / Andrea L. Press; Media 'Sluts': 'Tween' girls' negotiations of postfeminist sexual subjectivities in popular culture / Sue Jackson and Tiina Vares; Is 'the Missy' a new femininity? / JongMi Kim -- Part III. Textual Complications: Of displaced desires: interrogating 'new' sexualities and 'New' spaces in Indian diasporic cinema / Brinda Bose; Notes on some scandals: the politics of shame in Vers le Sud / Sadie Wearing; The limits of cross-cultural analogy: Muslim veiling and 'Western' fashion and beauty practices / Carolyn Pedwell -- Part IV. New Feminists: Agency and/ Making Do: Through the looking glass?: sexual agency and subjectification online / Feona Attwood; Reckoning with prostitutes: performing Thai femininity / Jin Haritaworn; Migrant women challenging stereotypical views on femininities and family / Umut Erel; Negotiating sexual citizenship: lesbians and reproductive health care / Rà‚oisin Ryan-Flood -- Part V. New Feminisms, New Challenges: The new German feminisms: of wetlands and alpha-girls / Christina Scharff; The contradictions of successful femininity: third-wave feminism, postfeminism and 'New' femininities / Shelley Budgeon; Skater girlhood: resignifying femininity, resignifying feminism / Dawn H. Currie, Deirdre M. Kelly and Shauna Pomerantz; Will these emergencies never end?: some first thoughts about the impact of economic and security crises on everyday life / Gargi Bhattacharyya.
Summary:
"This volume brings together twenty original essays on the changes and continuities in gender relations and intersecting politics of sexuality, race, class and location. The book is located in debates about contemporary culture at a moment of rapid technological change, global interconnectedness and the growing cultural dominance of neoliberalism and postfeminism. The collection traverses disciplines, spaces and approaches. It is marked by an extraordinarily wide focus, ranging from analyses of celebrity magazines and makeover shows to examinations of the experiences of young female migrants, 'mail order brides' and young women who repudiate feminism. The contributions are united by their attempts to think through the ways in which experiences and representations of femininity are changing in the twenty-first century. Are we seeing new femininities? Are neoliberalism and postfeminism constructing new identities and subjectivities? What kinds of analytic tools and cultural politics are needed to critically engage with the current moment? This book will be of interest to everyone studying gender, media or cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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