TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whelehan,Imelda
TI  - Overloaded: popular culture and the future of feminism 
SN  - 0704346176
AV  - HQ1597 .W45 2000
U1  - 305.42 23
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London
PB  - Women's Press
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Sex role in mass media
KW  - Sexism in mass media
KW  - Women in mass media
KW  - Popular music
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-185) and index
N2  - "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
ER  -