About this book
Introduction
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'.
Keywords
culture feminism media television women
Bibliographic information
- Book Title Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood
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Authors
A. Winch
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312747
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Media & Culture Collection Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
- Hardcover ISBN 978-0-230-34875-2
- Softcover ISBN 978-1-349-34573-1
- eBook ISBN 978-1-137-31274-7
- Edition Number 1
- Number of Pages X, 222
- Number of Illustrations 1 b/w illustrations, 0 illustrations in colour
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Topics
Gender Studies
Cultural and Media Studies, general
Screen Studies
Film History
Sociology of Culture
Feminism
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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