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Fictional Feminism : How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality, Paperback / softback Book

Fictional Feminism : How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality Paperback / softback

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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