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Argues that contemporary postfeminist culture selectively incorporates feminism to claim it is no longer needed, while revealing deep limits in gender equality. Highlights how valorization of female achievement coexists with disciplinary techniques that enforce youthful appearance, and how class, age, and racial exclusions shape who is imagined as universally included. Explores the link between culture, politics, and feminist activism across multiple media forms and essays.","Console-ing Passions Television and Cultural Power Edited by Lynn Spigel  \nInterrogatIng  P o s t f e m i n i s m   \ngender and the Politics of Popular Culture  \nEdited by Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra  \nDuke University Press Durham and London 2007  \n© 2007 Duke University Press  \nAll rights reserved  \nPrinted in the United States of America on acid-free paper ♾ Designed by Heather Hensley  \nTypeset in Monotype Garamond by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments vii  \nIntroduction: Feminist Politics and Postfeminist Culture 1 Yvonne Tasker and diane negra  \n1. Postfeminism and Popular Culture:  \nBridget Jones and the New Gender Regime 27  \nangela Mcrobbie  \n2. Mass Magazine Cover Girls: Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and Postfeminism’s Daughters 40 sarah ProjanskY  \n3. Living a Charmed Life: The Magic of Postfeminist Sisterhood 73 hannah e. sanders  \n4.“I Hate My Job, I Hate Everybody Here”: Adultery, Boredom, and the “Working Girl”  \nin Twenty-First-Century American Cinema 100  \nsuzanne leonard  \n5. Remapping the Resonances of Riot Grrrl:  \nFeminisms, Postfeminisms, and “Processes” of Punk 132 anna FeigenbauM  \n6. Killing Bill: Rethinking Feminism and Film Violence 153 lisa coulThard  \n7. Queer Eye for the Straight Guise: Camp, Postfeminism, and the Fab Five’s Makeovers of Masculinity 176 sTeven cohan  \n8. What’s Your Flava? Race and Postfeminism in Media Culture 201 sarah baneT-Weiser  \n9. The Fashion Police: Governing the Selfin  \nWhatNot to Wear 227  \nMarTin roberTs  \n10. Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African American Women in Postfeminist and  \nPost-Civil-Rights Popular Culture 249  \nkiMberlY sPringer  \n11. Subjects of Rejuvenation: Aging in Postfeminist Culture 277 sadie Wearing  \nBibliography 311  \nContributors 331  \nIndex 335  \nvi Contents  \nACknowledgments  \nThe editors would like to express their appreciation to the  \ncontributors for their work in developing these essays, to Hannah Hamad for the considerable help she provided as project assistant, to Desi Van Til and Sarah Churchwell for assistance in obtaining illustrations, to Rachel Hall for her assistance in preparing the bibliography, to Lindsay Steenberg for compiling the index, and to the School of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia and the Department of Modern Culture and Media and the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University, both of which generously provided material assistance during the completion of this book.  \nWe also wish to acknowledge the numerous colleagues and graduate students who helped to facilitate the April 2004 conference Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture at the University of East Anglia from which this volume grew. As the conference administrator, Heather Laing made a considerable contribution to the generation of this project.  \nFinally, we thank Ken Wissoker (the definition of a kind, thoughtful, and supportive editor) and the staff at Duke University Press, as well as the press’s readers, who furnished the best kind of reports, those that blend challenge and encouragement in equal measure.  \nAngela McRobbie’s essay appears with the permission of the author and Feminist Media Studies.  \nYvonne Tasker and Diane Negra  \nIntroduction  \nFeMinisT PoliTics and PosT FeMinisT culTure  \nPostfeminism broadly encompasses a set of assumptions,  \nwidely disseminated within popular media forms, having to do with the “pastness” of feminism, whether that supposed pastness is merely noted, mourned, or celebrated. Crucially for us, postfeminism suggests a more complex relationship between culture, politics, and feminism than the more familiar framing concept of “backlash” allows. 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