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Postfeminisms: Feminism, Cultural Theory, and Cultural Forms
by Ann Brooks. 240 pgs.

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Once seen as synonymous with 'any-feminism', postfeminism is now understood as the theoretical meeting-ground between feminism and anti-foundationalist movements such as postmodernism and post-colonialism. Brooks shows how feminism is being redefined.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Challenging and Fragmenting the Consensus of the ‘second Wave’

1: Consensus and Conflict in Second Wave Feminism

2: Challenging the Basis of the Feminist Epistemological Project

3: Foucault and Postfeminism

4: Psychoanalytic Theory, Semiology and Postfeminism

5: Of Postfeminism’

Part III: Postfeminism and Cultural Forms

6: Postfeminisms and Cultural Politics

7: Postfeminism and Popular Culture

8: Postfeminist Variations Within Media and Film Theory

9: Postfeminisms and Cultural Space: Sexuality, Subjectivity and Identity

Conclusion

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Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement (Chap. 6 "Feminists in the 'Postfeminist' Age: The Women's Movement in the 1980s")
by Nancy Whittier. 310 pgs.

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Introduction

I: Radical Feminism in Columbus, Ohio

2: The Evolution of Radical Feminist Identity

3: Changers and the Changed: Radical Feminists in the Reagan Years

4: Keeping the Faith: Working for Social Change

5: United We Stand: The Impact of the Women's Movement on Other Social Movements

6: Feminists in the Postfeminist" Age: The Women's Movement in the 1980s"

7: The Next Wave

Conclusion: the Persistence and Transformation of Social Movements

Appendix Women's Movement, Organizations and Dates, Columbus, Ohio

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Critical Social Theories: An Introduction ("Beyond Gender: Feminism or Postfeminism?" begins on p. 119)
by Ben Agger. 216 pgs.

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1: The Disciplinary Positioning Of Theory

2: The Politics Of Grandnarratives I: The Orizing Postmodernity Lyotard's Critique

3: The Politics Of Grand Narratives Ii: From Derrida To Difference Theory

4: The Criticaltheory Of The Frankfurt School

5: Feminist Theory

6: Cultural Studies

7: Critiques Of Critical Social Theory

8: Critical Social Theory: Applications and Implications

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New Feminist Criticism: Art, Identity, Action ("Postfeminism, Feminist Pleasures, and Embodied Theories of Art" begins on p. 16)
by Joanna Frueh, Cassandra L. Langer, Arlene Raven. 346 pgs.

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The Archaic Smile

Postfeminism, Feminist Pleasures, and Embodied Theories of Art

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Patrilineage

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There's No Place like Home

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The Body in Question: Rethinking Motherhood, Alternity and Desire

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A Space of Infinite and Pleasurable Possibilities: Lesbian Self-Representation in Visual Art

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The Masculine Imperative: High Modern, Postmodern

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Olympia's Maid Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity

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(re)-Orienting

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Multicultural Strategies for Aesthetic Revolution in the Twenty-First Century

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Passing for White, Passing for Black

In the Missionary Position: Recent Feminist Ecological Art

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Visible Difference: Women Artists and Aging

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The Hair of the Dog That Bit Us: Theory in Recent Feminist Art

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Notes on Contributors

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Television and Sexuality: Regulation and the Politics of Taste (Chap. 8 "Postfeminist Drama in the USA")
by Jane Arthurs. 188 pgs.

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Series Editor's Foreword

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1: Introduction

2: Sexual Citizenship in the Digital Age

3: Pornography and the Regulation of Tasie

4: Sex Scandals

5: The Science of Sex

6: Documenting the Sex Industry

7: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Sexualities in UK Drama

8: Postfeminist Drama in the USA

9: Conclusion

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Work, Family, and Social Class in Television Images of Women: Prime-Time Television and the Construction of Postfeminism, in Women and Language
by Andrea Press, Terry Strathman. 9 pgs.

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Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement since 1970 (Chap. 3 "'After the Revolution': 1980s Television, Postfeminism, and Designing Women," Chap. 4 "Murphy Brown: Postfeminism Personified," and Chap. 5 "The Other Side of Postfeminism: Maternal Feminism in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman")
by Bonnie J. Dow. 240 pgs.

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Introduction: The Rhetoric of Television, Criticism, and Theory

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Chapter 1: 1970s Lifestyle Feminism, the Single Woman, and the Mary Tyler Moore Show

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Chapter 2: Prime-Time Divorce: the "Emerging Woman" of One Day at a Time

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Chapter 3: After the Revolution: 1980s Television, Postfeminism, and Designing Women

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Chapter 4: Murphy Brown: Postfeminism Personified

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Chapter 5: The Other Side of Postfeminism: Maternal Feminism in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

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Afterword: Feminist Images, Feminist Politics

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The Traffic in Men and the Fatal Attraction of Postfeminist Masculinity, in Women's Studies in Communication
by Bonnie J. Dow. 19 pgs.

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Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience (Chap. 5 "Women Remembering Television: Pre- and Postfeminist Generations")
by Andrea L. Press. 246 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Background

Chapter 1: Theoretical Framework: Issues of Class, Gender, and Mass Media Reception

Chapter 2: Work, Family, and Social Class in Television Images of Women: Prefeminism, Feminism, and Postfeminism on Prime-Time Television

Part II: Women Interpreting Television

Introduction:: Women's Experiences with Television: The Evolution of the Meaning of Television Through the Generations

Chapter 3: Middle-Class Women Discuss Television

Chapter 4: Working-Class Women Discuss Television

Chapter 5: Women Remembering Television: Pre- and Postfeminist Generations

Conclusion: Television Reception as a Window on Culture

Appendix: Methodology

Notes: Introduction

Bibliography

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