Fictional Feminism : How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality Hardback
by Kim A. Loudermilk
Part of the Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series
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This book focuses on the ways in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movement.
Kim Loudermilk provides close readings of four best-selling novels and their film adaptations.
According to Loudermilk, each of these novels contains explicitly feminist characters and themes, yet each presents a curiously ambivalent picture of feminism; these texts at once take feminism seriously and subtly undercut its most central tenets.
This book argues that these texts create a kind of "fictional feminism" that recuperates feminism's radical potential, thereby lessening the threat it presents to the status quo.
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- Pages:236 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:13/04/2004
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- ISBN:9780415968065
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:236 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:13/04/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415968065