| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 175 pages) |
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Routledge advances in sociology ; 44 |
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Routledge advances in sociology ; 44.
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| Contents |
Part I. Feminism, Postfeminism and Domestic Femininity -- Part II. Figures of Domestic Femininity -- Part III. Domestic Femininity in Reality and Lifestyle Television |
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Part I. Feminism, Postfeminism and Domestic Femininity -- 1. Marguerite Patten, Television Cookery and Postwar British Femininity -- 2. Feminism and the Critique of Consumer Culture, 1950-1970 -- 3. "I Am Not a Housewife, but ... ": Postfeminism and the Revival of Domesticity -- Part II. Figures of Domestic Femininity -- 4. Shall I Be Mother?: Motherhood and Domesticity in Popular Culture -- 5. The Husbandless Home: Domesticity and the Young Widow in the Contemporary Novel -- 6. Domestic Desire: Older Women in Six Feet Under and Brothers & Sisters -- 7. Ready-Maid Postfeminism?: The American 'Domestic' in Popular Culture -- Part III. Domestic Femininity in Reality and Lifestyle Television -- 8. Domestic Dystopias: Big Brother, Wife Swap and How Clean is Your House? -- 9. "It's Just Sad": Affect, Judgement and Emotional Labour in 'Reality' Television Viewing -- 10. Consuming Nigella |
| Summary |
"This collection intervenes into the debates surrounding feminism's contentious relationship with domesticity in popular culture. The contributors touch on topics ranging from reality television shows like How Clean is Your House? to the figure of the maid in contemporary American cinema"--EBL |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Feminism.
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Popular culture
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Women in popular culture.
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Feminist theory.
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Feminism
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Popular Culture
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feminism.
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popular culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Feminism
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Feminist theory
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Popular culture
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Women in popular culture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gillis, Stacy, 1972-
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Hollows, Joanne
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| ISBN |
9780203889633 |
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0203889630 |
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