Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture
By (Author) Joanne Hollows
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
10th February 2000
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Popular culture
305.4
Paperback
240
Width 138mm, Height 216mm, Spine 13mm
281g
In this introductory guide, the author identifies key feminist approaches to popular culture from the 1960s to the present and demonstrates how the relationship between feminism, femininity and popular culture has often been a troubled one. The book introduces the central ideas of both second-wave feminism and feminist cultural studies and demonstrates how they inform feminist debates about a range of popular forms and practices through a series of case studies including the woman's film, romantic fiction, soap opera, consumption and material culture. By showing the relationships between feminist positions within different fields of study, Joanne Hollows identifies the ways in which feminism has often been based on a rejection of both popular culture and femininity. The book examines the ways in which different feminist critics have drawn cultural distinctions between what is "feminist" and what is not, demonstrating how feminist identities were often produced through a refusal of feminine forms and practices and shows what implications these positions have for feminist cultural politics.
Joanne Hollows is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University