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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART ONE: GENERATING THE SECOND WAVE -- 1 Liberal Feminism: The Origins of the Second Wave -- 2 Marxist/Socialist Feminism: Reconstructing Male Radicalism -- 3 Radical Feminism: Redefining Politics -- 4 Lesbian Feminism: Exploding 'Heteroreality' -- 5 Black Feminism: Reimagining 'Equality' -- PART TWO: CRISIS IN FEMINISM? -- 6 Crisis in Feminism?: Feminist Debates in the '80s and '90s -- 7 Sites of Fissure: Putting the Politics of the Personal to the Test -- 8 Men in Feminism -- 9 Feminism, Postmodernism and Theoretical Developments -- 10 Identity Crisis?: 'Post-feminism', the Media and 'Feminist Superstars' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The new edition of Key Concepts in Gender Studies is a lively and engaging introduction to this dynamic field. Thoroughly revised throughout, the second edition benefits from the addition of nine new concepts including Gender Social Movements, Intersectionality and Mainstreaming. Each of the entries: • begins with a concise definition • outlines the history of each term and the debates surrounding it • includes illustrations of how the concept has been applied within the field • offers examples which allow a critical re-evaluation of the concept • is cross-referenced with the other key concepts • ends with guidance on further reading. A must-buy for undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of social science and humanities disciplines.

Reading Lena Dunham's Girls -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Why Girls? Why Now? -- Organisation of the Volume -- Part I: (Post)feminisms -- Part II: Performing and Representing Millennial Identities -- Part III: Sex, Sexuality, and Bodies -- References -- Part I Postfeminism(s) -- 2 'I Have Work … I Am Busy … Trying to Become Who I Am': Neoliberal Girls and Recessionary Postfeminism -- The Neoliberal Ladder and Generation Me -- Self-branding and the Gendering of Authenticity -- Notes -- References -- 3 Hating Hannah: Or Learning to Love (Post)Feminist Entitlement -- Girls and Contemporary Feminism -- Hannah's Body -- Hating Hannah -- (Post)Feminist Entitlement in an Era of Scarce Resources -- The End of Friendship and the Beginning of Self-Love? -- Dunham as Artist in the Popular Setting -- Note -- References -- 4 Genres of Impasse: Postfeminism as a Relation of Cruel Optimism in Girls -- Emerging Genres: Negotiating Postfeminism -- The Rom-Com Run -- Postfeminist Impasse -- Inconvenient Conventions -- References -- 5 From Sex and the City to Girls: Paving the Way for 'Post? Feminism' -- 20-Something Girls vs 30-Something Women -- Theorising Postfeminism -- Sexuality -- Reproductive 'Choices' -- Feminine Embodiment and Bodily Management -- Towards Post? Feminism? -- References -- 6 Bad Sex and the City? Feminist (Re)Awakenings in HBO's Girls -- Girls -- 'Gray Areas' and Bad Nights -- Yes Means Yes -- Choosing (the Right) Choice -- References -- Part II Performing and Representing Millennial Identities -- 7 'A Voice of a Generation': Girls and the Problem of Representation -- The Case for Girls -- The Problem with Girls -- The Limits of Representational Demands -- Conclusion: Signification/Significance -- References -- 8 HBO's Girls and Twenty-First-Century Education -- Pedagogy of the Privileged

How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the realities of an ageing Western population? This volume analyses this field of representation to argue that, while celebrations of ageing as an inspirational journey are increasing, most depictions still focus on decline and deterioration

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Whelehan, Imelda -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Wonder Women: 'All the world is waiting for you' -- 1. 'Postfeminism' or 'ghost feminism'? -- 2. Postfeminist haunts: working girls in and out of the urban labyrinth -- 3. Haunted housewives and the postfeminist mystique -- 4. Who's that girl? slayers, spooks and secret agents -- 5. The return of the repressed: feminism, fear and the postfeminist gothic -- Ghostscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This book aims to question, recalibrate and expand the field of rural social science by attending to the current debates in rural studies and feminist studies and by identifying possibilities for taking a rural view of feminisms and a feminist view of ruralities.