Rise of Enlightened Sexism How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild

Name: Rise of Enlightened Sexism How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild
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ISBN: 9780312673925

ISBN-10: 0312673922

ISBN-13: 9780312673925

Edition: 2010

Authors: Susan J. Douglas

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Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either be strong lead?ers in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. InThe Rise Of Enlightened Sexism, Susan J. Douglas, one of America's most entertaining and insightful cultural critics, takes readers on a spirited journey through the television programs, popular songs, movies, and news coverage of recent years, telling a story that is nothing less than the cultural biography of a new generation of American women.Revisiting cultural touchstones fromBuffy the Vampire SlayertoSurvivortoDesperate Housewives, Douglas uses wit and wisdom to expose these images of women as mere…

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List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 12/21/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Introduction: Fantasies of Power



Get the Girls



Castration Anxiety



Warrior Women in Thongs



The New Girliness



You Go, Girl



Sex "R" Us



Reality Bites



Lean and Mean



Red Carpet Mania



Women on Top...Sort Of


Epilogue: The F-Word


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index