Reading Lena Dunham's Girls : feminism, postfeminism, authenticity, and gendered performance in contemporary television / Meredith Nash, Imelda Whelehan, editors.
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| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Physical Description: | xi, 255 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Why Girls? Why now? / Meredith Nash and Imelda Whelehan
- Part I, Postfeminism(s). "I have work ... I am busy ... trying to become ... who I am" : neoliberal Girls and recessionary postfeminism / Stéphanie Genz ; Hating Hannah : or learning to love (post)feminist entitlement / Imelda Whelehan ; Genres of impasse : postfeminism as a relation of cruel optimism in Girls / Catherine McDermott ; From Sex and the city to Girls : paving the way for "post? feminism" / Ruby Grand and Meredith Nash ; Bad Sex and the city? : feminist (re)awakenings in HBO's Girls / Melanie Waters
- Part II, Performing and representing millennial identities. "A voice of a generation" : Girls and the problem of representation / Hannah McCann ; HBO's Girls and twenty-first century education / Laura Witherington ; Reading the boys of Girls / Frederic Dhaenens ; All adventurous women sing : articulating the feminine through the music of Girls / Alexander Sergeant ; "Doing her best with what she's got" : authorship, irony, and mediating feminist identities in Lena Dunham's Girls / Wallis Seaton
- Part III, Sex, sexuality and bodies. "Art porn provocauteurs" : feminist performances of embodiment in the work of Catherine Breillat and Lena Dunham / Maria San Filippo ; "You shouldn't be doing that because you haven't got the body for it" : commentary on nudity in Girls / Deborah J. Thomas ; Sexual perversity in New York? / Christopher Lloyd ; All postfeminism women do : women's sexual and reproductive health in television comedy / Elizabeth Arveda Kissling ; Afterword: Girls : notes on authenticity, ambivalence and imperfection / Rosalind Gill.