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Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction: Girlfriend Culture

    • Alison Winch
    Pages 1-7
  3. The Girlfriend Gaze

    • Alison Winch
    Pages 8-32
  4. BFF Co-Brands

    • Alison Winch
    Pages 33-61
  5. Strategic Sisterhoods

    • Alison Winch
    Pages 62-89
  6. Womance

    • Alison Winch
    Pages 90-116
  7. Making White Lives Better?

    • Alison Winch
    Pages 117-140
  8. Catfight

    • Alison Winch
    Pages 141-160
  9. Class and British Reality Television

    • Alison Winch
    Pages 161-177
  10. The Friendship Market

    • Alison Winch
    Pages 178-194
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 200-222

About this book

From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing on a range of media forms, Alison Winch reveals how women are increasingly encouraged to strategically bond by controlling each other's body image through 'the girlfriend gaze'.

Reviews

"Alison Winch explores the deep and complex emotions involved in female friendships and how these are exploited by brands, television formats and film narratives to tie us into a competitive and unequal consumer culture. By recognising the source of negative as well as positive emotions between women, a more effective political movement could be achieved to counteract this exploitation, she suggests. The book expertly updates and builds on postfeminist scholarly research through close attention to recent popular culture. It makes a compelling argument, challenging established assumptions about the way girls and women are portrayed and how we, in turn, respond." - Jane Arthurs, Middlesex University, UK

Authors and Affiliations

  • Middlesex University, UK

    Alison Winch

About the author

Alison Winch is a lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, UK. She has published on gender and sexuality in the Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies and Women's Writing, among others.

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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