Single Women in Popular Culture The Limits of Postfeminism
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A. Taylor
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Single Women in Popular Culture The Limits of Postfeminism
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Palgrave Macmillan
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9780230358607
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Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms, this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which postfeminism limits the representation of single women in popular culture.
Cover
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Half-Title
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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1 Theorizing Women’s Singleness: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Popular Culture
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2 From the Second-wave to Postfeminism: Single Women in the Mediasphere
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3 Spinsters and Singletons: Bridget Jones’s Diary and its Cultural Reverberations
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4 Desperate and Dateless TV: Making Over the Single Woman
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5 Self-Help and the Single Girl: From Salvation to Validation
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6 Blogging Solo: Women Refiguring Singleness
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Notes
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References
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Index
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