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Unruly girls, unrepentant mothers : redefining feminism on screen /

By: Karlyn, Kathleen Rowe, 1947-.
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011Description: xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780292718333 (cl. : alk. paper); 9780292718333:; 0292718330 (cl. : alk. paper); 0292737548 (pbk.); 9780292737549 (pbk.).Subject(s): Women in motion pictures | Feminism and motion pictures | Motion pictures for womenDDC classification: 791.436522
Contents:
Bad mothers, angry girls -- Postfeminism and the third wave: Titanic -- Trouble in paradise: American beauty and the incest motif -- Girl world: Clueless, Mean girls, and The devil wears Prada -- Final girls and epic fantasies: Remaking the world -- How Reese Witherspoon walks the line -- Teen-girl melodramas: My so-called life and Thirteen -- Girls of color: beyond girl world -- The motherline and a wicked powerful feminism: Antonia's line.
Summary: Continuing the celebration of female unruliness she began in 'The Unruly Woman', Karlyn explores how representations of mothers and daughters in popular films and television shows both reflect and contribute to current debates within and about feminism.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 791.436522 KAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0077200
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-296) and index.

Bad mothers, angry girls -- Postfeminism and the third wave: Titanic -- Trouble in paradise: American beauty and the incest motif -- Girl world: Clueless, Mean girls, and The devil wears Prada -- Final girls and epic fantasies: Remaking the world -- How Reese Witherspoon walks the line -- Teen-girl melodramas: My so-called life and Thirteen -- Girls of color: beyond girl world -- The motherline and a wicked powerful feminism: Antonia's line.

Continuing the celebration of female unruliness she began in 'The Unruly Woman', Karlyn explores how representations of mothers and daughters in popular films and television shows both reflect and contribute to current debates within and about feminism.

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