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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Reviews
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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
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-5
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Theorizing Women’s Singleness: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Popular Culture
Pages 6-32
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From the Second-wave to Postfeminism: Single Women in the Mediasphere
Pages 33-71
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Spinsters and Singletons: Bridget Jones’s Diary and its Cultural Reverberations
Pages 72-104
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Desperate and Dateless TV: Making Over the Single Woman
Pages 105-141
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Single Women in Popular Culture
- Book Subtitle
- The Limits of Postfeminism
- Authors
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- A. Taylor
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-35860-7
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230358607
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-27382-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-32427-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 242
- Topics
