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Feel-Bad Postfeminism: Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture

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In Feel-Bad Postfeminism, Catherine McDermott provides crucial insight into what growing up during empowerment postfeminism feels like, and outlines the continuing postfeminist legacy of resilience in girlhood coming-of-age narratives.

McDermott's analysis of Gone Girl , Girls and Appropriate Behaviour illuminates a major cultural turn in which the pleasures of postfeminist empowerment curdle into a profound sense of rage and resentment. By contrast, close examination of The Hunger Games , Girlhood and Catch Me Daddy reveals that contemporary genres are increasingly constructing girls as uniquely capable of resiliently overcoming and adapting to unforgiving social conditions.

She develops an affective vocabulary to better understand contemporary modes of defiant, transformative and relational resilience, as well as a framework through which to expand on further modes that are specific to the genres they emerge within. Overall, the book suggests that exploration of the affective dimensions of girls' and women's culture can offer new insights into how coming-of-age, girlhood and femininity are culturally produced in the aftermath of postfeminism.

Pages: 280

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Release: June 30, 2022

ISBN: 1350224987

ISBN 13: 9781350224988

Feel-Bad Postfeminism: Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture

0/5 ( ratings)

In Feel-Bad Postfeminism, Catherine McDermott provides crucial insight into what growing up during empowerment postfeminism feels like, and outlines the continuing postfeminist legacy of resilience in girlhood coming-of-age narratives.

McDermott's analysis of Gone Girl , Girls and Appropriate Behaviour illuminates a major cultural turn in which the pleasures of postfeminist empowerment curdle into a profound sense of rage and resentment. By contrast, close examination of The Hunger Games , Girlhood and Catch Me Daddy reveals that contemporary genres are increasingly constructing girls as uniquely capable of resiliently overcoming and adapting to unforgiving social conditions.

She develops an affective vocabulary to better understand contemporary modes of defiant, transformative and relational resilience, as well as a framework through which to expand on further modes that are specific to the genres they emerge within. Overall, the book suggests that exploration of the affective dimensions of girls' and women's culture can offer new insights into how coming-of-age, girlhood and femininity are culturally produced in the aftermath of postfeminism.

Pages: 280

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Release: June 30, 2022

ISBN: 1350224987

ISBN 13: 9781350224988

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