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Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms, this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which postfeminism limits the representation of single women in popular culture.
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'Rejecting oversimplified accounts of her metamorphosis from spinster to singleton, this original book astutely assesses paradoxical cultural discourses wherein the single woman is sometimes approvingly evaluated for her exemplary conduct as a neoliberal subject yet often anxiously positioned as a challenge to heternormativity in a 'couple culture' that strenuously resists self examination.' - Diane Negra, University College Dublin, Ireland
'Single Women in Popular Culture is an exemplary, groundbreaking work within the field of feminist media and cultural studies. It employs feminist cultural criticism critically to address major questions related to the hyper-visible positioning of heterosexual women's singleness within the terrain of popular culture.' - European Journal of Women's Studies
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ANTHEA TAYLOR Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Mediating Australian Feminism (2008) and journal articles in feminist literary and cultural studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Single Women in Popular Culture
Book Subtitle: The Limits of Postfeminism
Authors: Anthea Taylor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230358607
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27382-5Published: 25 November 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32427-9Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-35860-7Published: 25 November 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 242
Topics: Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism