Girlfriends and postfeminist sisterhood / by Alison Winch, Middlesex University, UK.

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From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing on a range of media forms, including film, magazines, conduct books, TV and digital networking sites, Alison Winch reveals the ways in which friendships are increasingly...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winch, Alison
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:
Girlfriends (Television program : 2000-2008)
Television and women.
Physical Description:x, 222 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: girlfriend culture
  • The girlfriend gaze
  • BFF co-brands
  • Stategic sisterhood
  • Womance
  • Making white lives better?
  • Catfight
  • Class and British reality television
  • The friendship market
  • Conclusion: The friendship market.