Feel-Bad Postfeminism: Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture

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Catherine McDermott

Feel-Bad Postfeminism

Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture

Catherine McDermott

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
28 December 2023

Film theory & criticism; Television; Popular culture; Feminism & feminist theory

Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture

In Feel-Bad Postfeminism, Catherine McDermott provides crucial insight into what growing up during empowerment postfeminism feels like, and outlines the continuing postfeminist legacy of resilience in girlhood coming-of-age narratives.

McDermott's analysis of Gone Girl (2012), Girls (2012–2017) and Appropriate Behaviour (2012) illuminates a major cultural turn in which the pleasures of postfeminist empowerment curdle into a profound sense of rage and resentment. By contrast, close examination of The Hunger Games (2008–2010), Girlhood (2014) and Catch Me Daddy (2014) reveals that contemporary genres are increasingly constructing girls as uniquely capable of resiliently overcoming and adapting to unforgiving social conditions.

She develops an affective vocabulary to better understand contemporary modes of defiant, transformative and relational resilience, as well as a framework through which to expand on further modes that are specific to the genres they emerge within. Overall, the book suggests that exploration of the affective dimensions of girls’ and women’s culture can offer new insights into how coming-of-age, girlhood and femininity are culturally produced in the aftermath of postfeminism.

By: Catherine McDermott
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350326712
ISBN 10: 1350326712
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 28 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Catherine McDermott is Associate Lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She teaches cultural and critical theory and her work has been published in Reading Lena Dunham’s Girls (2017) and the journal Girlhood Studies.

Reviews for Feel-Bad Postfeminism: Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture

This lively, readable book makes a vital contribution to contemporary literature about gender, media and culture. Building on a growing body of work on the affective dimensions of everyday life, Catherine McDermott asks how postfeminism feels, charting a shift from the can-do, aspirational tropes of the 1990s and early 2000s to something more complex and ambivalent. Feel-Bad Postfeminism deserves to be widely read! --Rosalind Gill, City University of London, UK