Reading Lena Dunham’s Girls: Feminism, postfeminism, authenticity and gendered performance in contemporary television
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3319529706 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 255 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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The collection teases out the series’ messy feminist politics and reinvigorates debates about the popular currency of feminism and postfeminism in a post-recession context.” (Dr Becky Munford, Reader in English Literature, Cardiff University, UK) “This collection takes a fresh approach to examining what is arguably one of the most significant television dramas of the 21st century so far. Fresh and incisive, the essays are unflinching in their analyses of the series’ uncomfortable representations of the intricacies and intimacies constituting millennial gender identities. The contributors pass an insightful gaze onto a plethora of postfeminist anxieties, but also issues of production and reception in the context of television as a cu
It aims for a refreshed, authentic expression of postfeminist femininity that eschews the glamour and aspirational fantasies spawned by its predecessor. The series features both familiar and innovative depictions of young women and men in contemporary America that invite comparisons with Sex and the City. This volume reviews the contemporary scholarship on Girls, from its representation of post-millennial gender politics to depictions of the messiness and imperfections of sex, embodiment, and social interactions. In this book, leading and emerging scholars consider the mixed cri
She is the author of Making Postmodern Mothers (2012) and editor of Reframing Reproduction (2014).. Meredith Nash is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia