Feminism in Popular Culture

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.

Joanne Hollows is Principal Lecturer in Media Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University. Rachel Moseley is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick.

Notes on Contributors

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Acknowledgements

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1 Popularity Contests: The Meanings of Popular Feminism

Joanne Hollows and Rachel Moseley

1

(24)

Part I: Inter-generational Relations of Feminism

2 Feminism in the News

Susan Sheridan, Susan Magarey and Sandra Lilburn

25

(16)

3 The Feminist in the Kitchen: Martha, Martha and Nigella

Charlotte Brunsdon

41

(16)

4 Feminism in the Classroom: Teaching Towards the Third Wave

Kathleen Rowe Karlyn

57

(22)

Part II Coming to Terms with Feminism

5 'Ally McBeal', 'Sex and the City' and the Tragic Success of Feminism

Joke Hermes

79

(18)

6 Can I Go Home Yet? Feminism, Post-feminism and Domesticity

Joanne Hollows

97

(22)

7 Sex Workers Incorporated

Jane Arthurs

119

(24)

Part III: Negotiating and Resisting Feminisms

8 Discipline and Pleasure: The Uneasy Relationship Between Feminism and the Beauty Industry

Paula Black

143

(18)

9 Learning from B-Girls

Charla Ogaz

161

(22)

10 Illegitimate, Monstrous and Out There: Female Quake Players and Inappropriate Pleasures

Helen W. Kennedy

183

(20)

Index

203

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