| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-296) and index. |
| Summary |
A companion to the author's The Unruly Woman, this book "studies the ways popular culture and current debates within and about feminism inform each other"--Cover, p. [4]. |
| Contents |
Introduction : bad mothers, angry girls -- Postfeminism and the third wave : Titanic -- Trouble in paradise : American beauty and the incest motif -- Girl world : clueless, mean girls, and the Devil wears Prada -- Final girls and epic fantasies : Remaking the world -- How Reese Witherspoon walks the line -- Teen-girl melodramas : My so-called life and Thirteen -- Girls of color : beyond girl world -- The motherline and a wicked powerful feminism : Antonia's line. |
| Subject |
Women in motion pictures.
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Feminism and motion pictures.
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Motion pictures for women.
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| ISBN |
9780292737549 (pbk.) |
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9780292718333 (cl. : alk. paper) |
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0292718330 (cl. : alk. paper) |
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0292737548 (pbk.) |
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