Thiscollection of original essays looks at the way in which experiences and representations of femininity are changing, and explores the possibilities for producing 'new' femininities in the twenty-first century. The volume includes a Preface by leading feminist scholar Angela McRobbie.
Acknowledgements Preface; A.McRobbie Notes on Contributors Introduction; C.Scharff & R.Gill PART I: SEXUAL SUBJECTIVITY AND THE MAKEOVER PARADIGM Pregnant Beauty: Maternal Femininities under Neoliberalism; I.Tyler The Right to Be Beautiful: Postfeminist Identity and Consumer Beauty Advertising; M.M.Lazar Spicing It Up: Sexual Entrepreneurs and The Sex Inspectors ; L.Harvey & R.Gill '(M)Other-in-Chief: Michelle Obama and the Ideal of Republican Womanhood'; L.Guerrero Scourging the Abject Body: Ten Years Younger and Fragmented Femininity under Neoliberalism; E.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; J.Ringrose 'Feminism? That's So Seventies': Girls and Young Women Discuss Femininity and Feminism in America's Next Top Model ; A.L.Press Media 'Sluts': 'Tween' Girls' Negotiations of Postfeminist Sexual Subjectivities in Popular Culture; S.Jackson & T.Vares Is 'the Missy' a New Femininity?; J.Kim PART III: TEXTUAL COMPLICATIONS Of Displaced Desires: Interrogating 'New' Sexualities abd 'New' Spaces in Indian Diasporic Cinema; B.Bose Notes on Some Scandals: The Politics of Shame in Vers le Sud ; S.Wearing The Limits of Cross-Cultural Analogy: Muslim Veiling and 'Western' Fashion and Beauty Practices; C.Pedwell PART IV: NEW FEMININITIES: AGENCY AND/AS MAKING DO Through the Looking Glass? Sexual Agency and Subjectification Online; F.Attwood Reckoning with Prostitutes: Performing Thai Femininity; J.Haritaworn Migrant Women Challenging Stereotypical Views on Femininities and Family; U.Erel Negotiating Sexual Citizenship: Lesbians and Reproductive Health Care; R.Ryan-Flood PART V: NEW FEMINISMS, NEW CHALLENGES The New German Feminisms: Of Wetlands and Alpha-Girls; C.Scharff The Contradictions of Successful Femininity: Third-Wave Feminism, Postfeminism and 'New' Femininities; S.Budgeon Skater Girlhood: Resignifying Femininity, Resignifying Feminism; D.H.Currie, D.M.Kelly & S.Pomerantz Will These Emergencies Never End? Some First Thoughts about the Impact of Economic and Security Crises on Everyday Life; G.Bhattacharyya Index
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