Bad Girls Cultural Politics and Media Representations of Transgressive Women |
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| Author:
| Owen, Susan A.
Stein, Sarah H.
Vande Berg, Leah R. |
| Series title: | Frontiers in Political Communication Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8204-6150-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2007 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $44.00 |
Book Description:
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Bad Girls examines representational practices of film and television stories beginning with post-Vietnam cinema and ending with postfeminisms and contemporary public disputes over women in the military. The book explores a diverse range of popular media texts, from the
Alien saga to
Ally McBeal and
Sex and the City, from
The Net and
VR5 to
Sportsnight and
G.I. Jane. The research is framed as a study of intergenerational tensions...
More Description Bad Girls examines representational practices of film and television stories beginning with post-Vietnam cinema and ending with postfeminisms and contemporary public disputes over women in the military. The book explores a diverse range of popular media texts, from the Alien saga to Ally McBeal and Sex and the City, from The Net and VR5 to Sportsnight and G.I. Jane. The research is framed as a study of intergenerational tensions in portrayals of women and public institutions - in careers, governmental service, and interactions with technology. Using iconic texts and their contexts as a primary focus, this book offers a rhetorical and cultural history of the tensions between remembering and forgetting in representations of the American feminist movement between 1979 and 2005. Looking forward, the book sets an agenda for discussion of gender issues over the next twenty-five years and articulates with authority the manner in which «transgression» itself has become a site of struggle.