Fictional Feminism

How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Feminist Criticism, American
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Author: Kim A. Loudermilk ISBN: 9781135884390
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: August 21, 2013
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Kim A. Loudermilk
ISBN: 9781135884390
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: August 21, 2013
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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