New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Pregnant Beauty: Maternal Femininities under Neoliberalism....Pages 21-36
The Right to Be Beautiful: Postfeminist Identity and Consumer Beauty Advertising....Pages 37-51
(M)Other-in-Chief: Michelle Obama and the Ideal of Republican Womanhood....Pages 52-67
Scourging the Abject Body: Ten Years Younger and Fragmented Femininity under Neoliberalism....Pages 68-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-95
Are You Sexy, Flirty, Or A Slut? Exploring ‘Sexualization’ and How Teen Girls Perform/Negotiate Digital Sexual Identity on Social Networking Sites....Pages 97-97
Media ‘Sluts’: ‘Tween’ Girls’ Negotiations of Postfeminist Sexual Subjectivities in Popular Culture....Pages 99-116
Is ‘the Missy’ a New Femininity?....Pages 117-133
Front Matter....Pages 134-146
Of Displaced Desires: Interrogating ‘New’ Sexualities and ‘New’ Spaces in Indian Diasporic Cinema....Pages 147-158
The Limits of Cross-Cultural Analogy: Muslim Veiling and ‘Western’ Fashion and Beauty Practices....Pages 159-159
Front Matter....Pages 161-172
Through the Looking Glass? Sexual Agency and Subjectification Online....Pages 173-187
Reckoning with Prostitutes: Performing Thai Femininity....Pages 188-199
Migrant Women Challenging Stereotypical Views on Femininities and Family....Pages 201-201
Negotiating Sexual Citizenship: Lesbians and Reproductive Health Care....Pages 203-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-229
The New German Feminisms: Of Wetlands and Alpha-Girls....Pages 230-245
The Contradictions of Successful Femininity: Third-Wave Feminism, Postfeminism and ‘New’ Femininities....Pages 246-262
Skater Girlhood: Resignifying Femininity, Resignifying Feminism....Pages 263-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-278
Will These Emergencies Never End? Some First Thoughts about the Impact of Economic and Security Crises on Everyday Life....Pages 279-292
Back Matter....Pages 293-305
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