Postfemininities in Popular Culture

Genz, Stéphanie

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“…Second, organization and gender scholars have only just begun to draw insight from feminist research on postfeminist representational culture, located largely within cultural, film and television studies (Genz, ; McRobbie, ; Negra, ; Tasker and Negra, ). This represents a promising opportunity for organization and gender scholars to engage in interdisciplinary research, adding and developing an organizational dimension to feminist media culture scholarship that seeks to interrogate the contemporary nexus between women, femininity and feminism in the West.…”

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Postfeminism, Men, Masculinities and Work: A Research Agenda for Gender and Organization Studies Scholars

Rumens¹

2016

Gender Work & Organization

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Mobilizing the concept of postfeminism as a sensibility, this article invites organization and gender scholars to examine how postfeminist masculinities are discursively constituted and performed by men within contemporary work contexts. Acknowledging that women are interpellated within postfeminist discourses as empowered and autonomous subjects whose lives are shaped by individual choice, this article explores the implications for men, in particular how men variously perform postfeminist masculinities and the implications for addressing gendered inequalities within the workplace. Developing a research agenda, this article outlines three research trajectories: (1) problematizing a gender binary in which women are depicted as empowered at work and men in a state of crisis; (2) interrogating signs of ‘new’ postfeminist masculinities coded as inclusive in the workplace; and (3) examining how different types of men perform postfeminist masculinities at work. This article concludes by providing examples of research questions to generate future organizational scholarship in these areas.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Postfeminism, Men, Masculinities and Work: A Research Agenda for Gender and Organization Studies Scholars

Rumens¹

2016

Gender Work & Organization

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“…This reading comes closer to scholarly readings that find the protagonist trying to navigate a postfeminist terrain that exhibits contradictory liberating and constraining features, traditional and innovative images, and feminist and anti-feminist discourses (Genz 2009;Gill 2008;McRobbie 2004).…”

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Feminine Sexualities in the Chick Genre

Rowntree

2014

Feminist Media Studies

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This paper foregrounds the voices of women who read chick lit or watch contemporary chick flicks or both, and who, to date, have been absent in the scholarship on representations of women's sexuality in this genre. It is informed by an empirical study of responses from forty-one Australian women to an anonymous Internet survey that asked, "How do you think women's experiences of sex are portrayed in the chick genre?" and "If you were a writer of the chick genre, how else would you portray women's sexual experiences?" Following the works of Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell, and Joke Hermes on "interpretive repertoires," the data reveal that most readers draw on two repertoires to interpret representations of women's sexuality-one, as "passive or asexual," and the other as "perfect with Mr Right"-both of which are situated within a wider "romantic love" frame of reference. Participants are, predominantly, critical of the way women's sexuality is represented in the chick genre. The findings, that also show that most readers have a preference for texts that show a broader range of sexual representations for women, are discussed in the light of current theorizing about postfeminist texts.

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“…(See for example Genz 2009Genz , 2010Taylor 2011, 89-90) In feminist media studies our go-to reference points for this figure have tended to be found in the aforementioned central characters of Ally McBeal (Calista Flockhart) and Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) from millennial US television series Ally McBeal and Sex and the City, as well of course as the titular Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) of Bridget Jones's Diary, both the novel (Fielding 1996) and the film adaptation of the same name (Sharon Maguire, 2001). But there is an equally vividly and arguably even more extremely drawn iteration of this cultural figure in Friends in the character of Monica.…”

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The One with the Feminist Critique: Revisiting Millennial Postfeminism with Friends

Hamad

2018

Television & New Media

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In the aftermath of its initial broadcast run, iconic millennial sitcom Friends (NBC, 1994–2004) generated some quality scholarship interrogating its politics of gender. But as a site of analysis, it remains a curious, almost structuring absence from the central canon of the first wave of feminist criticism of postfeminist culture. This absence is curious not only considering the place of Friends at the forefront of millennial popular culture but also in light of its long-term syndication in countries across the world since that time. And it is structuring in the sense that Friends was the stage on which many of the familiar tropes of postfeminism interrogated across the body of work on it appear in retrospect to have been tried and tested. This article aims to contribute toward redressing this absence through interrogation and contextualization of the series’ negotiation of a range of structuring tropes of postfeminist media discourse, and it argues for Friends as an unacknowledged ur-text of millennial postfeminism.

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Postfemininities in Popular Culture

Cited by 81 publications

References 78 publications

Postfeminism, Men, Masculinities and Work: A Research Agenda for Gender and Organization Studies Scholars

Postfeminism, Men, Masculinities and Work: A Research Agenda for Gender and Organization Studies Scholars

Feminine Sexualities in the Chick Genre

The One with the Feminist Critique: Revisiting Millennial Postfeminism with Friends

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