Overloaded : popular culture and the future of feminism / Imelda Whelehan.

By:

Whelehan, Imelda, 1960- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Women's Press, 2000Description: x, 202 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0704346176
9780704346178

Other title:

Popular culture and the future of feminism

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.42 23

LOC classification:

HQ1597 .W45 2000

Summary: "This volume examines the phenomenon of laddishness and the cult of the girlie in film, TV, advertising, music, politics, literature, and society. It interprets these trends as a nostalgic longing for a pre-feminist society which, through the medium of comedy and irony, has been manipulated by popular media as a liberation from political correctness. Contrasting the culture icons of the 1990s with the 1970s tough chicks and the 1980s New Man and Have-It-All Woman, the book aims to show how the rhetoric of "laddism" emerged and how it has infused so many aspects of our cultural identity."--Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-185) and index.

"This volume examines the phenomenon of laddishness and the cult of the girlie in film, TV, advertising, music, politics, literature, and society. It interprets these trends as a nostalgic longing for a pre-feminist society which, through the medium of comedy and irony, has been manipulated by popular media as a liberation from political correctness. Contrasting the culture icons of the 1990s with the 1970s tough chicks and the 1980s New Man and Have-It-All Woman, the book aims to show how the rhetoric of "laddism" emerged and how it has infused so many aspects of our cultural identity."--Publisher description.

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