ABSTRACT
In a series of essays scrutinizing feminist and post-structuralists positions, Tania Modleski examines "the myth of postfeminism" and its operation in popular culture, especially popular film and cultural studies. (First published in 1991.)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |58 pages
Theory and Methodology
chapter |20 pages
Postmortem on Postfeminism
chapter |12 pages
Femininity as Mas(s)querade
chapter |24 pages
Some Functions of Feminist Criticism; Or, the Scandal of the Mute Body
Reducing the Variables: Feminism, “Ethnographic” Criticism and Romance Readers
part |53 pages
Masculinity and Male Feminism
part |52 pages
Race, Gender, and Sexuality
chapter |30 pages
Lethal Bodies
Thoughts on Sex, Gender and Representation, from the Main Stream to the Margins
