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Based in the city of Leeds in the north of England, Leeds Animation Workshop describes itself as a "not-for-profit, cooperative company, which produces and distributes animated films and films on social and educational issues." The organization was formally established in 1978 following a collaboration by a group of women on the film Who Needs Nurseries? We Do! In this interview Terry Wragg, a member of the group since that founding period, talks with Yvonne Tasker about funding patterns, filmmaking, the women's movement, and the significance of the workshop movement in the United Kingdom.

From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In Soldiers' Stories, Yvonne Tasker traces this perceived paradox across genres including musicals, screwball comedies, and action thrillers. She explains how, during the Second World War, women were portrayed as auxiliaries, temporary necessities of "total war." Later, nursing, with its connotations of feminine care, offered a solution to the "gender problem." From the 1940s through the 1970s, musicals, romances, and comedies exploited the humorous potential of the gender role reversal that the military woman was taken to represent. Since the 1970s, female soldiers have appeared most often in thrillers and legal and crime dramas, cast as isolated figures, sometimes victimized and sometimes heroic. Soldiers' Stories is a comprehensive analysis of representations of military women in film and TV since the 1940s. Throughout, Tasker relates female soldiers' provocative presence to contemporaneous political and cultural debates and to the ways that women's labor and bodies are understood and valued.

Gender and recessionary culture / Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker -- Escaping the recession? The new vitality of the woman worker / Suzanne Leonard -- "Latina wisdom" in "postrace" recession media / Isabel Molina-Guzmán -- "We are all workers": economic crisis, masculinity, and the american working class / Sarah Banet-Weiser -- What Julia knew: domestic labor in the recession-era chick flick / Pamela Thoma -- Dressed for economic distress: blogging and the "new" pleasures of fashion / Elizabeth Nathanson -- The (re)possession of the American home: negative equity, gender inequality, and the housing crisis horror story / Tim Snelson -- House and home: structuring absences in post-celtic tiger documentary / Sinéad Molony -- "Stuck between meanings": recession-era print fictions of crisis masculinity / Hamilton Carroll -- Fairy jobmother to the rescue: postfeminism and the recessionary cultures of reality TV Hannah Hamad -- How long can the party last? Gendering the European crisis on reality TV / Anikó Imre

This timely, necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes, including crisis masculinity, coping women, and postfeminist self-renewal. Interpreting media forms as diverse as reality television, financial journalism, novels, lifestyle blogs, popular cinema, and advertising, the contributors reveal gendered narratives that recur across media forms too often considered in isolation from one another.

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