“I’m nothing like you!” Postfeminist Generationalism and Female Stardom in the Contemporary Chick Flick

Cobb, Shelley

doi:10.1057/9780230301979_3

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“…Even in post – feminist popular culture (Cobb 2011 ), women in motion pictures are stereotyped and sexualised (Smith et al 2010 ), the difference being that subjective structures are masked behind façade of female empowerment and independence. Importantly, the difference between popular culture beauty representation and female athletes is that, for the latter, spectators do see beyond the curtain.…”

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Speaking Pictures, Silent Voices: Female Athletes and the Negotiation of Selfhood

Intezar

2020

Integr. psych. behav.

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Combining Mikhail Bakhtin’s (1990) theoretical position on Architectonics and Erving Goffman’s (1979) writings on visual content analysis, the aim of this paper is to explore how female athletes are caught in a complex matrix of power, post – feminist neoliberalism, and self – presentation. The visual images they choose to portray are, therefore, perfect for determining how this cohort of women negotiates social discourses around identity and femininity. Appropriating the Bakhtinian notion of architectonic unity, not only provides an alternative theoretical lens for enquiries concerning the body, identity, and selfhood, but also initiates some thought provoking questions around neoliberal feminism and ‘new femininity.’ This paper advances on previous research by exemplifying how Serena Williams (considered the greatest female tennis player of all time) combines both her femininity and strong physicality to self – shape a myth – like persona, setting her apart from traditional stereotypes of femininity and ‘femaleness.’

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Speaking Pictures, Silent Voices: Female Athletes and the Negotiation of Selfhood

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2020

Integr. psych. behav.

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Nora, Julie, Julia: Legacies of Older Women in Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia (2009)

Smyth

2023

Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries

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Ageing Appropriately: Postfeminist Discourses of Ageing in Contemporary Hollywood

Whelehan¹

2013

Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

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“I’m nothing like you!” Postfeminist Generationalism and Female Stardom in the Contemporary Chick Flick

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Speaking Pictures, Silent Voices: Female Athletes and the Negotiation of Selfhood

Speaking Pictures, Silent Voices: Female Athletes and the Negotiation of Selfhood

Nora, Julie, Julia: Legacies of Older Women in Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia (2009)

Ageing Appropriately: Postfeminist Discourses of Ageing in Contemporary Hollywood

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