What a Girl Wants?: Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism

by Diane Negra

Book Overview

From domestic goddess to desperate housewife, What a Girl Wants? explores the importance and centrality of postfeminism in contemporary popular culture.

Focusing on a diverse range of media forms, including film, TV, advertising and journalism, Diane Negra holds up a mirror to the contemporary female subject who finds herself centralized in commodity culture to a largely unprecedented degree at a time when Hollywood romantic comedies, chick-lit,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415452287
• ISBN13: 9780415452281
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"