ABSTRACT
Postfeminism and Health. Sarah Riley, Adrienne Evans, Martine Robson. Chapter 1 . Chapter 1 explores the contribution of psychological language to our understandings of health. The chapter examines discourses of women’s inherent emotional vulnerability in classic and postfeminist media texts, including books and films that orient around the concept of ‘mean girls’. From this, the chapter discusses how, within a postfeminist sensibility, women are constructed as both inherently flawed and able to transform themselves into (postfeminist) perfection. Self-help literatures are examined to show how they offer a route map from flawed to perfect and how this goal ultimately remains elusive.>>
