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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Taylor, A

Titel

Single Women in Popular Culture : The Limits of Postfeminism [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2012

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Theorizing Women's Singleness - Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Representation -- From the Second Wave to Postfeminism - Single Women in Popular Discourse -- Spinsters and Singletons - Bridget Jones's Diary and its Cultural Reverberations -- Desperate and Dateless TV - Making Over the Single Woman -- Self-Help and the Single Girl - From Salvation to Celebration -- Blogging Solo - Women Refiguring Singleness -- Bibliography -- Index.
• 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.
• English