256 Pages
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Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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Once seen as synonymous with "anti-feminism" postfeminism i now understood as the theoretical meeting ground between feminism and anti-foundationalist movements such as postmodernism, post-structuralism and post-colonialsm. In this clear exposition of some of the major debates, theorists and practitioners, Ann Brooks shows how feminism is being redefined for the twenty first century. Individual... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 Challenging and Fragmenting the Consensus of the ‘Second Wave’; Part 2 Consensus and Conflict in Second Wave Feminism; Part 3 Feminism’s ‘Turn to Culture’—a Paradigm Shift in Feminist Theorising?; Part 4 Challenging the Basis of The Feminist Epistemological Project; Part 5 Foucault and Postfeminism; Part 6 Psychoanalytic Theory, Semiology and Postfeminism; Part 7 THE ‘Landscape OF Postfeminism’; Part 8 Postfeminism and Cultural Forms; Part 9 Postfeminisms and Cultural Politics; Part 10 Postfeminism and Popular Culture; Part 11 Postfeminist Variations Within Media and Film Theory; Part 12 Postfeminisms and Cultural Space: Sexuality, Subjectivity and Identity; Part 13 Conclusion;
Biography
Ann Brooks is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Massey University, New Zealand.
'Postfeminisms offers a comprehensive and imaginative mapping of the politico-theoretical shift brought about in feminism's agenda through its encounters with poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism ... a useful text for undergraduates in women's studies and cultural studies.' - Anna Yeatman, Macquarie University, Australia
