The feminist bestseller : from sex and the single girl to sex and the city
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The feminist bestseller : from sex and the single girl to sex and the city
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 12 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p.222-231
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Imelda Whelehan provides an overview of popular women's writing from the late 1960s to the present, looking at how key feminist texts such as The Women's Room, Kinflicks and Fear of Flying have influenced popular contemporary fiction such as Bridget Jones' Diary and Sex and the City. Whelehan reconsiders the links between the politics of feminist thought, action and writing and creative writing over the past 30 years and suggests that even so-called 'post feminist' writing owes an enormous debt to feminism's second wave.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Sex and the Single Girl.- Burnt Offerings: The Emergence of Radical Feminism.- Mad Housewives.- Women's Spaces: Marilyn French, Erica Jong and Marge Piercy.- Flying: Erica Jong and Lisa Alther.- Forbidden Fruit: Sexuality.- Crashing of the Superwoman: the 1980s.- Where Have all the Feminists Gone?: The Anxiety of Affluence.- Hooray for the Singletons!.- Urban Sex.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.
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