Table of Contents

Foreword by Imelda Whelehan Acknowledgements Introduction: Wonder Women: ‘All the world is waiting for you’ Chapter One: ‘Postfeminism’ or ‘Ghost feminism’? Chapter Two: Postfeminist haunts: working Girls in and out of the Urban Labyrinth Chapter Three: Haunted housewives and the postfeminist mystique Chapter Four: Who’s that girl?: slayers, spooks and secret agents Chapter Five: The return of the repressed: feminism, fear, and the postfeminist Gothic Notes Bibliography Index

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Feminism and Popular Culture maps the fraught and often unpredictable relationship between popular culture, feminism and postfeminism.

About the Author

Stacy Gillis is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University. Editor of 'The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded' (2005), she is also the co-editor of 'Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration' (Rev. ed. 2007) and 'Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture' (2008). Rebecca Munford is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. She is the editor of 'Re-visiting Angela Carter: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts' (2006) and co-editor of 'Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration' (Rev. ed. 2007). She is the author of 'Decadent Daughters and Monstrous Mothers: Angela Carter and the European Gothic'. Melanie Waters is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Northumbria University. She is the editor of 'Women on Screen: Feminism, Femininity and Visual Culture' (2011).

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