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"As an omnipresent figure of the media landscape, girls are spectacles. They are ubiquitous visual objects on display at which we are incessantly invited to look. Investigating our cultural obsession with both everyday and high-profile celebrity girls, Sarah Projanskyuses a queer, anti-racist feminist approach to explore the diversity of girlhoods in contemporary popular culture. The book addresses two key themes: simultaneous adoration and disdain for girls and the pervasiveness of whiteness and heteronormativity. While acknowledging this context, Projansky pushes past the dichotomy of the "can-do" girl who has the world at her feet and ..."--Publisher description

Explores the functions of whiteness in late-20th-century movies to argue that films explicitly placing whiteness in relation to blackness use various strategies to recenter whiteness & block the positions of Others. It is contended that many films touted as antiracist actually reinforce the power of whiteness through subtle discursive adjustments that reconstitute a space for white dominance. Movies of the 1990s are compared to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), which served as an assimilationist model for those that followed. It is shown that texts emphasizing universal similarity use strategies to avoid addressing racial tensions resulting from material inequities. The various strategies, eg, the masculinized family in Smoke (1995), bear a strong resemblance to the "maternal femininity that transcends white hypocrisy" strategy used 30 years earlier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. How messages of whiteness in popular culture illuminate & impact the dynamics of contemporary racial politics are discussed. 4 Photographs, 36 References. J. Lindroth

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Feminist Politics and Postfeminist Culture -- 1. Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime -- 2. Mass Magazine Cover Girls: Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and Postfeminism's Daughters -- 3. Living a Charmed Life: The Magic of Postfeminist Sisterhood -- 4. "I Hate My Job, I Hate Everybody Here": Adultery, Boredom, and the "Working Girl" in Twenty-First-Century American Cinema -- 5. Remapping the Resonances of Riot Grrrl: Feminisms, Postfeminisms, and "Processes" of Punk -- 6. Killing Bill: Rethinking Feminism and Film Violence -- 7. Queer Eye for the Straight Guise: Camp, Postfeminism, and the Fab Five's Makeovers of Masculinity -- 8. What's Your Flava? Race and Postfeminism in Media Culture -- 9. The Fashion Police: Governing the Self in What Not to Wear -- 10. Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African American Women in Postfeminist and Post-Civil-Rights Popular Culture -- 11. Subjects of Rejuvenation: Aging in Postfeminist Culture 277 Sadie Wearing -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index