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Topic: Postfeminism

	AlterNet: MediaCulture: Manufacturing Postfeminism
		Postfeminism is an invention promoted most vigorously by the right, and aided and abetted all along the way by the corporate media.
		Postfeminism, as a term, suggests that women have made plenty of progress because of feminism, but that feminism is now irrelevant and even undesirable because it has made millions of women unhappy, unfeminine, childless, lonely, and bitter, prompting them to fill their closets with combat boots and really bad India print skirts.
		Postfeminism is, in fact, an ongoing engineering process promoted most vigorously by the right, but aided and abetted all along the way by the corporate media.
	www.alternet.org /mediaculture/13118 (1144 words)

	postfeminism
		The feminist backlash which promotes postfeminism involves younger women, some of whom forget that we have to work for the rights that men just take for granted all the time - and that vigilance is the price that we must pay for defining those rights and maintaining them.
		So I see postfeminism as applicable in terms of the way people view feminism, but I don't think it's applicable if it's saying that the goals of feminism have been reached and now we're in a state of postfeminism.
		My "definition" is that postfeminism is our reaction to a couple of generations of feminists arguing amongst themselves about the definition of feminism, about nature vs. nurture, and bad men vs. bad patriarchy.
	www.altx.com /ebr/ebr3/forum/pofem.htm (2526 words)

	magnolienbaum: 11.04
		Drawing upon postmodernism and poststructuralist theories, postmodern feminism (postfeminism) argues that it is no longer meaningful or helpful to identify a univocal ‘feminine subject.’ Not only is it impossible to speak in any coherent manner about a ‘type’ of subject, it is also impossible to identify a singularly gendered type of subject.
		Postfeminism would not argue that divine subjectivity is produced differently from human subjectivities: they are all produced discursively.
		postfeminism includes within it some strains of queer theory which challenge us to think about identities/subjectivities as "performative": my being a queer trans person is not an essential characteristic of me, but a (1) constructed and (2) performed identitiy.
	magnolienbaum.blogspot.com /2004_11_01_magnolienbaum_archive.html (1939 words)

	Canadian Journal of Communication - Vol. 23, No. 3 (1998)
		Moreover, postfeminisms ``facilitates a broad-based, pluralistic conception of the application of feminism, and addresses the demands of marginalised, diasporic and colonised cultures for a non-hegemonic feminism capable of giving voice to local, indigenous and post-colonial feminisms'' (p.
		As Brooks states in her introduction, ``postfeminism can be understood as critically engaging with patriarchy and postmodernism as similarly engaged with the principles of modernism'' (p.
		I appreciated Brooks' definition of postfeminism and her ability to describe various feminist positions engaged with postmodernism.
	www.cjc-online.ca /viewarticle.php?id=475&layout=html (608 words)

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		Postfeminism and "Chick" Narratives [8] "Sex and the City" is part of a wave of print, broadcast and film texts that emerged in the mid and late 1990s fictionalizing the experiences of single urban women.
		While in its various forms postfeminism exhibits a range of relations to feminism from complacent to hostile, it is clear that most types of postfeminism are underwritten by canny distortions of feminist dogma.
		The first is linear postfeminism, which constructs an historical trajectory in which we are now at an endpoint, the second backlash postfeminism, also declares feminism to be finished but holds it responsible for negative cultural work.
	www.genders.org /g39/g39_negra.txt (5283 words)

	S&F Online - Public Sentiments
		Postfeminism began to appear as a term in the media by the mid-1980s, but perhaps began to be significantly present as a concept in 1991 when Susan Faludi published Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women.
		This book acknowledged the concept and from a feminist point of view, tried to dispel it as a media-inspired attitude that feminism was passé because women had arrived at their goals, while the truth was that a massive mainstream defense of the status quo was producing the ideology of postfeminism.
		My conclusion, however, is that avoiding "postfeminism" is impossible and unproductive, and that there will be no "third wave" until a genuine popular movement with political objectives is visible on the horizon, and unfortunately, it's not yet discernable.
	www.barnard.columbia.edu /sfonline/ps/reinelt2.htm (1152 words)

	Parminder Nagra \| Parminder OnLine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Postfeminism in the British Frame Justine Ashby In the penultimate episode of Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) stumbles upon a Parisian bookstore where her book is being promoted.
		With the benefit of hindsight, the sense that a different, or at least a differently refracted, version of postfeminism was emerging in Britain was significantly heightened in the wake of the landslide election victory for New Labour in 1997.
		The fit between postfeminism and New Labour was certainly a potentially snug one; both were couched in the language of modernization and renewed self-confidence and have often been understood as a repudiation of a stuffier, more politicized past.
	www.parminderonline.com /press/0105_ashby.html (1814 words)

	Lily James: Lilylit: Diatribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		We at the Playground didn't invent Postfeminism -- we were just analyzing and drawing attention to a phenomenon that was already in existence, giving words to the thoughts and feelings lots of women were having, telling people it was real and it was okay.
		But watching Carmeron Diaz kick the crap out of bad guys while wearing thigh high patent leather boots and chatting on the phone to her nice boyfriend, I realized that postfeminism has become so normalized, so absorbed, so much a part of our culture that the "ism" itself is no longer necessary.
		Postfeminism, unlike its angrier predecessor, graciously folds itself away like the faux leather skirt we also used to love and prance around in.
	www.rpsd.com /lilylit/diatribes/apr27.htm (514 words)

	A Neat Little Package - The Changing Face
		To investigate whether women’s magazines, in fact, reflect the historical patterns of feminism and postfeminism in the issues conveyed on their covers, a content analysis of popular women’s magazines was employed.
		The time periods for examination of pre-feminism, feminism and postfeminism eras were selected to capture the overall sentiments of each era for comparison within and among magazines.
		Although this finding may contradict the view that postfeminism emerged in the 1980s as an opposition to feminism, it supports the notion that postfeminism is a continuation of feminism.
	www.aneatlittlepackage.com /TheChangingFace.htm (5311 words)

	Postfeminism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Postfeminism has been increasingly designated the only position left to feminist theorists who do not suffer from post-structuralist disavowal: "Postfeminism [.] challenges hegemonic assumptions held by second wave feminist epistemologies that patriarchal and imperialist oppression was a universally experienced oppression" (Brooks 1997).
		Postfeminism, then, registers the shift from "debates around equality to a focus on debates around difference" and undermines the "hegemony" of second-wave feminism which became "the dominant and colonising voice of feminist theory through publishing and academic influences" (Brooks 1997).
		The 1970s feminist entry into the academy marks a remarkable and unprecedented historical moment, but one which has resulted in an abstracted 'feminism' (understood largely as a theoretical-academic discipline) being exposed to criticism, by a generation familiar withpoststructuralism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism, as a new elitist, colonising, heterosexist hegemony in the name of feminism.
	scholar.uws.edu.au /~13083465/kylie.html (507 words)

	Edge: THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2002
		Like many women in my cohort, I discovered that my mother was born too early for postfeminism.
		Of course, postfeminism makes sense only when basic legal and civil rights exist for both sexes — it's an irrelevant luxury for too many women on this planet.
		Letitia Baldrige, the dean of American manners (among other things), recently defined her own position as that of a "conservative feminist." It makes sense, for the restless privileged daughters of Western feminism, to become moderate postfeminists — not centrists, exactly, but realists.
	www.edge.org /q2002/q_quan.html (184 words)

	Genders OnLine Journal - Presenting innovative theories in art, literature, history, music, TV and film.
		The series’ highly ambivalent investment in a notion of "postfeminism," a cultural catchphrase most often used to express a widely-shared assumption that feminism is no longer desirable or viable.
		While critics such as Don Westervelt have rightly recognized the ways in which the Act constructs homosexual citizens as "strangers" within normative, national space, it also indisputably creates the same effect for single women, whose experience, at best, is defined as pre-marital. A variety of forms of postfeminist discourse contribute to such social positioning.
		"Postfeminism." In The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism.
	www.genders.org /g39/g39_negra.html (1287 words)

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		My focus is postfeminism, but I start by analysing the second wave feminisms as a background of postfeminism.
		Postfeminism, which is based on postmodern approach, sees power as the central constitutive of our reality and the division of sexes.
		To conclude, it can be said that the first current of postfeminism is actually closer to modem, second wave feminism, in terms of its approach on power, identity, and feminist politics, than to postmodem approach.
	www.valt.helsinki.fi /gradutmp/g486.htm (391 words)

	postfeminism and music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		However postfeminism could be described as being the new developments in feminism or a "follow on" to early feminist ideas, as many of the original struggles of feminists (such as equal pay and job opportunities) have been fought and won.
		The debate which surrounds their success is whether they can be considered products of feminist ideas, representatives of feminist ideals or whether they contradict or confuse these ideals, by both emphasising the independence and power of women but also some would argue that they present themselves as sexual objects.
		Both women seem to promote the notion of postfeminism in their careers, by reconstructing gender ideals and appearing to be women in control of their careers, sexuality and lives in general.
	scholar.uws.edu.au /~10249576/amanda3.html (524 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Introducing Postfeminism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		I was over at the lovely downtown home of a couple of friends and, toward the end of the evening, was handed this cute little dark blue book with a very becoming pink Madonna-inspried getup hanging on an equally pink rod gracing the cover.
		As postmodern feminism (here-termed 'postfeminism', since philosophers prefer their big words small) has always been of supreme interest to yours truly, I immediately opened the volume and began to glean therefrom the attendant humor I had thoroughly expected.
		Interlaced with poppy cartoons of the 'great thinkers' of postfeminism, engaging the world in a variety of oddball venues, are pages of terrific summation of the movement, its implications for society, and its parallels in psychology and philosophy.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1840460105 (823 words)

	Manufacturing Postfeminism - afield.org.ua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		But the emphasis in Time-and this is also absolutely central to postfeminism-is the notion that whatever challenges women face in juggling work and family are their individual struggles, to be conquered through good planning, smart choices, and an upbeat outlook.
		But there is no comparative data here about how countries like Denmark or the Netherlands, just to pick two, through admittedly high taxes, provide all kinds of support services to mothers and, in fact, make it not just possible but customary for women to work and have kids.
		(How does one year's paid maternity leave sound, girls?) But postfeminism also rests on the notion that neither the government nor corporate America can or should offer any support to parents for the common good of raising the next generation.
	afield.org.ua /femukr/postfem.html (701 words)

	Postfeminisms: Feminism, Cultural Theory, and Cultural Forms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In this attractive South End Press Classics edition, featuring a new preface, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism's reliance on white, middle-class, and professional spokeswomen obscures the centrality of women of color and poor women in the movement for women's liberation.
		Once seen as synonymous with "anti-feminism" postfeminism is now understood as the theoretical meeting ground between feminism and anti-foundationalist movements such as postmodernism, post-structuralism and post-colonialsm.
		Individual chapters look at postfeminism in relation to feminist epistemology, Foucault, psychoanalytic theory and semiology, postmodernism and postcolonialism, cultural politics, popular culture, film and media, and sexuality and identity.
	www.enotalone.com /books/0415114756.html (250 words)

	High Drama in Fabulous Toledo by Lily James \| PopMatters Book Review
		In fact, I think that postfeminism has now been so accepted and integrated into our culture that it's pretty much what most everyone is thinking now anyway.
		Postfeminism is the "so now what" that comes after feminism.
		Postfeminism is a lack of interest in chanting the old slogans, waving the old banners, crabbing over the old injustices.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/h/high-drama-in-fabulous-toledo.shtml (2114 words)

	The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism (Routledge Companions) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism (Routledge Companions)
		The Feminist Theory Reader provides a revolutionary new approach to anthologizing the important works in feminist theory by incorporating the voices of women of color and postcolonial scholars throughout.
		In style typical of this series Introducing Postfeminism uses text and integrated illustration to trace the effect of French feminist theory on contemporary gender, politics and culture.
	www.enotalone.com /books/0415243106.html (354 words)

	Principles of Hormone/Behavior Relations And Introducing Postfeminism by Sophia Phoca, ISBN 1840460105
		As we arrive at the new millennium, the role of women in our society continues to be a topic of heated debate.
		Having deconstructed women's oppression and reclaimed women's culture, what does the future hold for postfeminism? Introducing Postfeminism uses text and integrated illustration to trace the effect of French feminist theory on contemporary gender, politics and culture.
		The author and illustrator describe how postfeminist theories draw from a range of discourses including psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism to develop our understanding of the "feminine.
	www.supercreepsvideo.com /hormone.htm (190 words)

	Postfeminism Introduction
		I'm fed up with much of mainstream feminism (except for the very best parts of it) but don't think I'm willing to say that feminism is in a post phase (one interpretation of postfeminism as you named it months ago, and the predominant one, I think).
		The four sections of this issue reflect this heightened interest in postfeminism, both in support and in rejection of it.
		Wolcott's dismissal aside, postfeminism remains an awkward yet laudable movement among younger women, one which embraces pluralism and homosexuality, one which expects that women are just as involved in the electronic frontier of the web as men are.
	www.altx.com /ebr/ebr3/intro.htm (551 words)

	thoughts on the eve of the apocalypse
		Susan Douglas takes "postfeminism" to task in the recent edition of In These Times:
		I would think it would refer to a time when complete gender equality has been achieved.
		The point about advertising is particularly astute because I don't think the ridiculous levels of consumption in this country could be maintained if feminism hadn't been gutted of any relevant meaning.
	b-c.blogspot.com /2002/05/postfeminism-inc.html (370 words)

	Introducing Postfeminism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		If you already have a solid grounding in these matters, the book may be a handy pocket reference - however, as an actual introduction its a mess.
		Check out pages 110-111, where the hymen is described as existing "both within and outside the body"; "it can be metaphorically broken or remain intact." lt;pgt;Postfeminists, like psychoanalysts, have an odd tendency to generalize biological gestalt to social universals: a Lacanian celebration of implicit social roles coded within the genitals.
		Indeed, much of postfeminism has been about "deconstructing" (a very specific term, really) these roles and reconstructing them into something new and, presumably, more socially viable.
	www.political-sciences.com /Introducing_Postfeminism_1840460105.html (493 words)

	Postfeminism \| Anti-Essentialist Philosophy \| Feminist Theory \| Questia.com Online Library
		...writing about third-wave feminism and postfeminism for a few years, and the outspoken...academic scholars have afforded third-wave/postfeminism a similarly limited...
		In her 1990 analysis...1.) While the meaning of the term "postfeminism" is often debated, many...
		To be more precise, it produces postfeminists, who take on postfeminism as a means to survive uneven...goals and methods of...
	www.questia.com /library/sociology-and-anthropology/gender/women/feminism/postfeminism.jsp (559 words)

	Phoca Wright - new and used books
		In the shift from feminism to postfeminism, women have begun to celebrate difference rather than equality.
		Tough, sexy and irreverent, she does not see herself as a victim, and she wants power.
		Introducing Postfeminism traces the effect of French feminist theory on contemporary gender politics and culture, and describes how postfeminist theorists have drawn from a range of discourses including psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism to develop our understanding of the feminine.
	www.isbn.pl /A-phoca-wright (175 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Approachable for general readers as well as for students in women's studies related courses at all levels, this invaluable guide follows the unique Companion format in combining over a dozen in-depth background chapters with more than 400 A-Z dictionary entries.
		The background chapters are written by major figures in the field of feminist studies, and include thorough coverage of the history of feminism, as well as extensive discussions of topics such as Postfeminism, Men in Feminism, Feminism and New Technologies and Feminism and Philosophy.
		The dictionary entries cover the major individuals and issues essential to an understanding both of feminism's roots and of the trends that are shaping its future.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415243106 (763 words)

	CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Reading these moments, this paper argues that the Jackal's racial and colonial heritage is central to the ways in which the Jackal has been used to articulate forms of trans-national subjectivity, constituted through a combination of sexual and geographic mobility.
		This paper examines the particular historical and political context that enables, through a discursive field informed by Orientalism, imperialism, and modernity, the emergence of postfeminism and a postfeminist subject, arguing that only through a figure of an Other (geisha) is the postfeminist woman able to constitute herself as subject.
		By historically and discursively situating postfeminism, I link the "local" constitutions of postfeminism in the U.S. to a particular representation of the geisha (as an international figure) that is both informed by, and departs from, other appropriations of her.
	www.cultstud.org /crossroads/session/dasilva.htm (915 words)

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