Accessible, introductory student guide which identifies key feminist approaches to popular culture from the 1960s to the present.. The only introduction to both feminist cultural studies and feminism and popular culture published in the UK.. Presents its information in a reader friendly series of case studies on:
women's film
romantic fiction
soap opera
consumption and material culture
fashion and beauty proactices
youth culture and popular music. Will appeal to students across a wide range of disciplines as a variety of popular cultural forms are discussed.

- 238 pages
- English
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Feminism, femininity and popular culture
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Feminism & Feminist TheoryIndex
Social SciencesTable of contents
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- 1 SECOND-WAVE FEMINISM AND FEMININITY
- 2 FEMINISM, CULTURAL STUDIES AND POPULAR CULTURE
- PART II WOMEN'S GENRES: TEXTS AND AUDIENCES
- 3 FILM STUDIES AND THE WOMAN'S FILM
- 4 READING ROMANTIC FICTION
- 5 SOAP OPERAS AND THEIR AUDIENCES
- PART III CONSUMPTION PRACTICES AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES
- 6 CONSUMPTION AND MATERIAL CULTURE
- 7 FASHION AND BEAUTY PRACTICES
- 8 YOUTH CULTURES AND POPULAR MUSIC
- PART IV CONCLUSIONS
- 9 FEMINISM IN POPULAR CULTURE
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
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