Fictional Feminism: How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415968065)

This book focuses on the ways in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movement. Kim Loudermilk provides close readings of four best-selling novels and their film adaptations. According to Loudermilk, each of these novels contains explicitly feminist characters and themes, yet each presents a curiously ambivalent picture of feminism; these texts at once take feminism seriously and subtly undercut its most central tenets. This book argues that these texts create a kind of "fictional feminism" that recuperates feminism's radical potential, thereby lessening the threat it presents to the status quo.

Author: Kim a. Loudermilk
ISBN-10: 0415968062
ISBN-13: 9780415968065
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2004
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d