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Twenty-first Century Feminism

Forming and Performing Femininity

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Claire Nally

    1. Northumbria University, UK

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  2. Angela Smith

    1. University of Sunderland, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Angela Smith
    Pages 1-16

  3. ‘Strange Borrowing’: Affective Neuroscience, Neoliberalism and the ‘Cruelly Optimistic’ Gendered Bodies of CrossFit

    • Leslie Heywood
    Pages 17-40

  4. Big Sister TV: Bossiness, Bullying and Banter in Early Twenty-first Century Make-over Television

    • Angela Smith
    Pages 41-65

  5. Boredom and Reinvention for the Female Gaze Within Personal Fashion Blogs

    • Jennifer Anyan
    Pages 66-92

  6. In Full View: Involuntary Porn and the Postfeminist Rhetoric of Choice

    • Anne Burns
    Pages 93-118

  7. Miranda and Miranda: Feminism, Femininity and Performance

    • Rosie White
    Pages 119-139

  8. Flexible Femininities? Queering Kawaii in Japanese Girls’ Culture

    • Makiko Iseri
    Pages 140-163

  9. ‘Whatever it is that you desire, halve it’: The Compromising of Contemporary Femininities in Neo-Victorian Fictions

    • Karen Sturgeon-Dodsworth
    Pages 164-183

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 184-190
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About this book

This collection of essays considers the ways in which feminism is still an important issue in twenty-first century society. Looking at various forms of literature, media, and popular culture, the book establishes that contemporary images of femininity are highly contested, complex, and frequently problematic.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Northumbria University, UK

    Claire Nally

  • University of Sunderland, UK

    Angela Smith

About the editors

Claire Nally, University of Northumbria, UK Angela Smith, University of Sunderland, UK Jennifer Anyan, Southampton Solent University, UK Anne Burns, Loughborough University School of Art, UK Leslie Heywood, State University of New York, USA Makiko Iseri, University of Sussex, UK Karen Sturgeon-Dodsworth, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Rosie White, Northumbria University, UK

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