Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture by Hollows, Joanne - 2000

UK: Manchester University Press, 2000. 229pp & less than 500g to post. Joanne Hollows is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is the author of Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture (2000) and Domestic Cultures (2008) and co-author of Food and Cultural Studies (2004). Accessible, introductory student guide which identifies key feminist approaches to popular culture from the 1960s to the present.. The only introduction to both feminist cultural studies and feminism and popular culture published in the UK.. Presents its information in a reader friendly series of case studies on: women's film romantic fiction soap opera consumption and material culture fashion and beauty proactices youth culture and popular music. Will appeal to students across a wide range of disciplines as a variety of popular cultural forms are discussed. reviewer says >>> Hollows goes into a great amount of detail about different feminist debates on popular culture in a very clear and easy-to-understand way, and her writing style is very pleasant to read. She touches upon the most important areas of cultural criticism (eg. for the film and tv section she looks at genre and psychoanalytic theories) and subjects the theorists she cites to a healthy dose of criticism, delineating the pros and cons of their arguments.. Paperback. Very Good/None issued. 22cm.