ISBN10: 0198820879, ISBN13: 9780198820871, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. In Pop-Feminist Narratives, Emily Spiers explores the recent phenomenon of 'pop-feminism' and pop-feminist writing across North America, Britain, and Germany. Pop-feminism is characterised by its engagement with popular culture and consumerism; its preoccupation with sexuality and transgression in relation to female agency; and its thematisation of intergenerational feminist discord, portrayed either as a damaging discursive construct or as a verifiablephenomenon requiring remediation. Central to this volume is the question of theorising the female subject in a postfeminist neoliberal climate and the role played by genre and narrative in the articulation ofcontemporary pop-feminist politics. The heightened visibility of mainstream feminist discourse and feminist activism in recent yearsDLespecially in North America, Britain, and GermanyDLmeans that the time is ripe for a coherent comparative scholarly study of pop-feminism as a transnational phenomenon. This volume provides such an account of pop-feminism in a manner which takes into account the varied and complex narrative strategies employed in the telling of pop-feministstories across multiple genres and platforms, including pop-literary fiction, the popular 'guide' to feminism, film, music, and the digital. This volume explores the recent phenomenon of 'pop-feminism' and ...
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