Research Catalog
Reading Lena Dunham's Girls : feminism, postfeminism, authenticity, and gendered performance in contemporary television
- Title
- Reading Lena Dunham's Girls : feminism, postfeminism, authenticity, and gendered performance in contemporary television / Meredith Nash, Imelda Whelehan, editors.
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- ©2017
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PN1992.77.G5535 R43 2017 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xi, 255 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Why Girls? Why now? / Meredith Nash and Imelda Whelehan -- Part I, Postfeminism(s). "I have work ... I am busy ... trying to become ... who I am" : neoliberal Girls and recessionary postfeminism / Stéphanie Genz ; Hating Hannah : or learning to love (post)feminist entitlement / Imelda Whelehan ; Genres of impasse : postfeminism as a relation of cruel optimism in Girls / Catherine McDermott ; From Sex and the city to Girls : paving the way for "post? feminism" / Ruby Grand and Meredith Nash ; Bad Sex and the city? : feminist (re)awakenings in HBO's Girls / Melanie Waters -- Part II, Performing and representing millennial identities. "A voice of a generation" : Girls and the problem of representation / Hannah McCann ; HBO's Girls and twenty-first century education / Laura Witherington ; Reading the boys of Girls / Frederic Dhaenens ; All adventurous women sing : articulating the feminine through the music of Girls / Alexander Sergeant ; "Doing her best with what she's got" : authorship, irony, and mediating feminist identities in Lena Dunham's Girls / Wallis Seaton -- Part III, Sex, sexuality and bodies. "Art porn provocauteurs" : feminist performances of embodiment in the work of Catherine Breillat and Lena Dunham / Maria San Filippo ; "You shouldn't be doing that because you haven't got the body for it" : commentary on nudity in Girls / Deborah J. Thomas ; Sexual perversity in New York? / Christopher Lloyd ; All postfeminism women do : women's sexual and reproductive health in television comedy / Elizabeth Arveda Kissling ; Afterword: Girls : notes on authenticity, ambivalence and imperfection / Rosalind Gill.
- ISBN
- 3319529706
- 9783319529707
- OCLC
- ocn967369806
- SCSB-8867221
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library