Hannah and Her Entitled Sisters: (Post)feminism, (post)recession, and<i>Girls</i>

DeCarvalho, Lauren J.

doi:10.1080/14680777.2013.771889

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“…And because of her high degree of self-reflexivity, this too becomes a source of humour: she needs (imperfect) things to happen to have material for her work. As various feminist scholars have shown (DeCarvalho 2013;Nygaard 2013;Grdešić 2013;Bell 2013), Dunham in her personal statements and blogs as well as in her series is successfully able to pre-empt a string of criticisms by demonstrating a facility for both self-deprecation and high degrees of self-reflexivity. These comments-in keeping with the theme of imperfection-take the form of constant self-beratement.…”

Section: The Problem With Girlsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Notes on the Perfect

McRobbie

2015

Australian Feminist Studies

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This article argues that at a point in time when feminism (in a variety of its forms) has re-entered political culture and civil society, there is, as though to hold this threat of new feminism at bay, an amplification of control of women, mostly by corporeal means, so as to ensure the maintenance of existing power relations. However the importance of ensuring male dominance is carefully disguised through the dispositif which takes the form of feminine self-regulation. The 'perfect' emerges as a horizon of expectation, through which young women are persuaded to seek self-definition. Feminism, at the same time, is made compatible with an individualising project and is also made to fit with the idea of competition. With competition as a key component of contemporary neoliberalism, (pace Foucault) the article construes the violent underpinnings of the perfect, arguing that it acts to stifle the possibility of an expansive feminist movement. It recaptures dissenting voices by legitimating and giving space in popular culture to a relatively manicured and celebrity-driven idea of imperfection or 'failure'.

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Section: The Problem With Girlsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Notes on the Perfect

McRobbie

2015

Australian Feminist Studies

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“…In the last 10 years, scholars have celebrated and critically examined the representation of femininities in contemporary television texts (e.g., Fien Adriaens and Sofie Van Bauwel 2014; Rebecca Brasfield 2006;Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra 2007), discussing the problematic concept of post-feminism and analysing television content that depicts women and femininities as the core of their narration (e.g., Kim Akass Downloaded by [Ghent University Library] at 09:16 11 December 2017 andJanet McCabe 2008;Elizabeth Kaufer Busch 2009;Lauren Decarvalho 2013;Meredith Nash and Ruby Grant 2015). According to Sean Fuller and Catherine Driscoll (2015, 259), post-feminism today is widely used to explain the "inadequacy of popular culture for representing feminism. "…”

Section: Post-feminism and Television Fictionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Invisible golden girls? Post-feminist discourses and female ageing bodies in contemporary television fiction

Bauwel

2017

Feminist Media Studies

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The popular television series The Golden Girls (1985-1992) seems to be an exception in the history of the representation of third-age women femininities and bodies in television fiction. This series about four mature women living in the same house in Miami made ageing women visible in television representations. Older women are generally invisible in popular television fiction. Despite this absence, a discourse on ageing and femininities is present in all sorts of popular media texts. We will question post-feminist discourses on ageing bodies and femininities. Are the post-feminist claims regarding ageing bodies present in popular television fiction? Moreover, are these discourses represented by the portrayal of ageing bodies? We will analyse the representations of ageing femininities in television fiction labelled as "post-feminist television fiction. " The series Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, and Girls will be studied using a textual analysis to look for discourses on ageing female bodies and their particularities in relation to post-feminism. We distinguished a limited set of three sets of discourses (losing femininity, masking of ageing, and the wisdom of ageing) on ageing femininities. Although ageing feminine bodies are absent, a discourse on ageing, "good" ageing, and acceptance of ageing is present in the narration in all three series. The discourse on the masking of ageing, however, is predominant.

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“…This collapse, which is contrasted to the attribution of authorial credit on Sex and the City to writer Candace Bushnell and producer Michael Patrick King, reflects the new value and visibility of intimacy, particularly in the digital age. From this perspective, Hannah’s fruitless writing and professional failures on Girls cannot so easily be dismissed as ‘doing everything in her power not to actually work for a living … [as] indicative of postfeminist entitlement’ (DeCarvalho, 2013: 368), as these representations are in fact underwritten by Dunham’s real-life status as a writing protégé: backed by Judd Apatow after her Sundance contribution, Tiny Furniture , and contracted to pen her autobiography – for US$3.5 million dollars – at the tender age of 26, Dunham is afforded the opportunity to play a narcissistic and hapless young writer because her talent and work ethic are already proven by the existence of the show (Nygaard, 2013). Similarly, Kaling’s character, Lahiri, can embrace feminine naïveté and hapless incompetence with impunity as Kaling has already established herself as a successful comedian, writer and actor committed to the feminist cause.…”

Section: –2014: Domestic/girlie Postfeminism In Girls and The Mindy Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consumption in the city: The turn to interiority in contemporary postfeminist television

Dejmanee

2015

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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In this article, I discuss a postfeminist 'turn to interiority' which takes place in US postfeminist television from 2005 onwards. Drawing on the theoretical critiques of postfeminist retreatism and girlie femininity, this turn is characterised by a concern with interior spaces -reviving domesticity and the importance of finding and securing a home -as well as internalised consumption -replacing forms of material consumption with the quest for self-actualisation, particularly through eating and expressions of the authentic self. I analyse this shift through a comparative analysis of the television shows Sex and the City, Girls and The Mindy Project. I argue that the turn to interiority is a product of the US cultural context, but also that this examination evidences the malleability and longevity of postfeminist ideology. Accordingly, I argue for the continuing importance of critical scholarship on postfeminism as an insight into the failures and pervasiveness of neoliberal politics.

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Hannah and Her Entitled Sisters: (Post)feminism, (post)recession, andGirls

Cited by 36 publications

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Notes on the Perfect

Notes on the Perfect

Invisible golden girls? Post-feminist discourses and female ageing bodies in contemporary television fiction

Consumption in the city: The turn to interiority in contemporary postfeminist television

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