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Fictional Feminism: How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality

Fictional Feminism: How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality

Loudermilk, Kim a.

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Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0415803454
ISBN13: 9780415803458
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 16 2009
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
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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