{"product_id":"feelbad-postfeminism-9781350224988","title":"FeelBad Postfeminism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFeel-Bad Postfeminism\u003c\/i\u003e, Catherine McDermott provides crucial insight into what growing up during empowerment postfeminism feels like, and outlines the continuing postfeminist legacy of resilience in girlhood coming-of-age narratives.McDermott''s analysis of\u003ci\u003e Gone Girl\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eGirls \u003c\/i\u003e(20122017) and \u003ci\u003eAppropriate Behaviou\u003c\/i\u003er (2012) illuminates a major cultural turn in which the pleasures of postfeminist empowerment curdle into a profound sense of rage and resentment. By contrast, close examination of \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Game\u003c\/i\u003es (20082010), \u003ci\u003eGirlhood\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and \u003ci\u003eCatch Me Daddy \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) reveals that contemporary genres are increasingly constructing girls as uniquely capable of resiliently overcoming and adapting to unforgiving social conditions. She develops an affective vocabulary to better understand contemporary modes of defiant, transformative and relational resilience, as well as a framework through which to expand on further modes that are specific to th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis lively, readable book makes a vital contribution to contemporary literature about gender, media and culture. Building on a growing body of work on the affective dimensions of everyday life, Catherine McDermott asks how postfeminism \u003ci\u003efeels\u003c\/i\u003e, charting a shift from the can-do, aspirational tropes of the 1990s and early 2000s to something more complex and ambivalent. \u003ci\u003eFeel-Bad Postfeminism\u003c\/i\u003e deserves to be widely read! -- Rosalind Gill, City University of London, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeries Editors’ Introduction Introduction \u003cb\u003ePart I: Impasse\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Feel-Bad Postfeminism in Gillian Flynn’s \u003ci\u003eGone Girl\u003c\/i\u003e  2. Postfeminist Impasse and Cruel Optimism in Lena Dunham’s \u003ci\u003eGirls\u003c\/i\u003e  3. ‘Being without a cliché to hold onto can be a lonely experience’: Generic Isolation in \u003ci\u003eAppropriate Behaviour\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart II: Resilience\u003c\/b\u003e 4. Suffering, Resilience and Defiance in \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Games \u003c\/i\u003e 5. Relationality and Transformation in \u003ci\u003eGirlhood \u003c\/i\u003e 6. Feel-Bad Femininity in \u003ci\u003eCatch Me Daddy\u003c\/i\u003e  Conclusion References Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407521947991,"sku":"9781350224988","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/feelbad-postfeminism-9781350224988","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}