1st Edition
Postfeminism in Context Women, Australian Popular Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism
Introduction
Postfeminism In and Out of Context
Chapter One
Chick Lit: Novels of Postfeminist Independence and Aspiration
Chapter Two
Television Dramedies: Refiguring Gendered Intimacy and Postfeminist Kinship on the Small Screen
Chapter Three
Women’s Magazines: Dreamscapes of Postfeminist Abundance
Chapter Four
YouTube beauty vlogs: Intimate publics and postfeminist confidence and care
Chapter Five
Self-Help Books: Calculating Magic as Postfeminist Everyday Philosophy
Chapter Six
Political Journalism: Women leaders, Constrained Power, and the Rhetoric of Post Gender
Conclusion
Australian Postfeminism as Popular Feminism
Biography
Margaret Henderson lectures in literary studies at the University of Queensland. She has published extensively on feminist culture and contemporary women’s writing, including a book-length study of Australian feminist cultural memory, Marking Feminist Times.
Anthea Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is author of three books in feminist literary and cultural studies, including Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster.
