Feminism, domesticity and popular culture /

Feminism, domesticity and popular culture / edited by Stacy Gillis and Joanne Hollows. - New York : Routledge, 2009. - 1 online resource (viii, 175 pages) - Routledge advances in sociology ; 44 . - Routledge advances in sociology ; 44. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Feminism, Postfeminism and Domestic Femininity -- Part II. Figures of Domestic Femininity -- Part III. Domestic Femininity in Reality and Lifestyle Television. Feminism, Postfeminism and Domestic Femininity -- Marguerite Patten, Television Cookery and Postwar British Femininity -- Feminism and the Critique of Consumer Culture, 1950-1970 -- "I Am Not a Housewife, but ... ": Postfeminism and the Revival of Domesticity -- Figures of Domestic Femininity -- Shall I Be Mother?: Motherhood and Domesticity in Popular Culture -- The Husbandless Home: Domesticity and the Young Widow in the Contemporary Novel -- Domestic Desire: Older Women in Six Feet Under and Brothers & Sisters -- Ready-Maid Postfeminism?: The American 'Domestic' in Popular Culture -- Domestic Femininity in Reality and Lifestyle Television -- Domestic Dystopias: Big Brother, Wife Swap and How Clean is Your House? -- "It's Just Sad": Affect, Judgement and Emotional Labour in 'Reality' Television Viewing -- Consuming Nigella. Part I. 1. 2. 3. Part II. 4. 5. 6. 7. Part III. 8. 9. 10.

"This collection intervenes into the debates surrounding feminism's contentious relationship with domesticity in popular culture. The contributors touch on topics ranging from reality television shows like How Clean is Your House? to the figure of the maid in contemporary American cinema"--EBL.

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