Footnote #50 - Postfeminism (with Eve Benhamou)
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The Fantasy/Animation Footnotes reach their half-century as Chris and Alex are once again joined by Dr Eve Benhamou, teaching fellow in Film Studies at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France to examine the contradictory cultural and political space of postfeminism. A much-debated topic, postfeminism typically pivots on gendered discourses of agency, autonomy, potency, and physical empowerment. Topics include the ambivalent relationship between contemporary postfeminism and the ‘gains’ of earlier feminist movements; the culture and politics of postfeminism’s multimedia presence in the late-1990s and early-2000s; and how the graphic rendering of female bodies as both powerful and powerless feeds into the broader animated representation of postfeminist physicality.
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Suggested Readings
Gill, Rosalind. 2016. “Post-postfeminism?: new feminist visibilities in postfeminist times.” Feminist Media Studies 16, no. 4: 610-630.
Genz, Stephanie and Benjamin A. Brabon. 2009. Postfeminism: Cultural Texts and Theories. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
McRobbie, Angela. 2004. “Post-feminism and Popular Culture.” Feminist Media Studies 4, no. 3: 255-264.
Tasker, Yvonne, and Diane Negra, eds. 2007. Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture. Durham and London: Duke University Press.