Feminism in Popular Culture

• Author(s): Joanne Hollows, Rachel Moseley,
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Pages: 209
• ISBN_10: 1845202228
  ISBN_13: 9781845202224
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory , Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

Description:... What is the relationship between feminism and popular culture? Has there been a 'backlash' against feminism or is feminism now part of contemporary 'commonsense'? Can feminism learn from popular culture? Feminism in Popular Culture explores these questions through a diverse range of texts and sites - from news coverage, 'The Vagina Monologues', the Scream trilogy, 'Ally McBeal' and 'Sex and the City', sex documentaries and TV cooks, to breakdancing, beauty salons and computer game-playing. Feminism in Popular Culture does not assume that popular culture could benefit from a feminist 'makeover'. Rather, it analyses how different meanings of feminism have been negotiated within popular culture - how popular culture has made sense of feminism.