Fictional Feminism
How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Feminist Criticism, American
| Author: | Kim A. Loudermilk | ISBN: | 9781135884390 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | August 21, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Kim A. Loudermilk |
| ISBN: | 9781135884390 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | August 21, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| 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.
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.
