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Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers - Redefining Feminism on Screen (Paperback)
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Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers - Redefining Feminism on Screen (Paperback)
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Since the 1990s, when Reviving Ophelia became a best seller and
“Girl Power” a familiar anthem, girls have assumed new
visibility in the culture. Yet in asserting their new power, young
women have redefined femininity in ways that have often mystified
their mothers. They have also largely disavowed feminism, even
though their new influence is a likely legacy of feminism’s
Second Wave. At the same time, popular culture has persisted in
idealizing, demonizing, or simply erasing mothers, rarely depicting
them in strong and loving relationships with their daughters.
Unruly Girls, Unrepentent Mothers, a companion to Kathleen Rowe
Karlyn’s groundbreaking work, The Unruly Woman, studies the ways
popular culture and current debates within and about feminism
inform each other. Surveying a range of films and television shows
that have defined girls in the postfeminist era—from Titanic and
My So-Called Life to Scream and The Devil Wears Prada, and from
Love and Basketball to Ugly Betty—Karlyn explores the ways class,
race, and generational conflicts have shaped both Girl Culture and
feminism’s Third Wave. Tying feminism’s internal conflicts to
negative attitudes toward mothers in the social world, she asks
whether today’s seemingly materialistic and apolitical girls,
inspired by such real and fictional figures as the Spice Girls and
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, have turned their backs on the feminism
of their mothers or are redefining unruliness for a new age.
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