Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film

Hamad, Hannah

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“…Moreover, the notion has also 'travelled' across other disciplines and fields. It is now used in management and organizational studies (Kelan, 2009;Lewis et al, 2016), psychology (Stuart and Donaghue, 2012), political theory (Madhok et al, 2013;Yates, 2015), education (Ringrose, 2013) and in studies of men and masculinities (Hamad, 2014;O'Neill, 2015). A number of writers point to the extraordinary durability and adaptability of the term and its capacity to speak to a wide range of pressing contemporary issues (Dejmanee, 2015;Negra, 2014).…”

Section: Postfeminism: the Life And Times Of A Critical Termmentioning

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The affective, cultural and psychic life of postfeminism: A postfeminist sensibility 10 years on

Gill

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article revisits the notion of 'postfeminism' 10 years after its formulation in critical terms as a sensibility characterizing cultural life. The article has two broad aims: first to reflect upon postfeminism as a critical term -as part of the lexicon of feminist scholarship -and second to discuss the current features of postfeminism as a sensibility. The first part of the article discusses the extraordinary uptake of the term and considers its continuing relevance in a changed context marked by deeply contradictory trends, including the resurgence of interest in feminism, alongside the spectacular visibility of misogyny, racism, homophobia and nationalism. I document a growing attention to the specificities of postfeminism, including attempts to map its temporal phases, its relevance to place, and intersectional developments of the term. The second part of the article examines the contours of the contemporary postfeminist sensibility. I argue that postfeminism has tightened its hold upon contemporary life and become hegemonic. Compared with a decade ago, it is much more difficult to recognize as a novel and distinctive sensibility, as it instantiates a common sense that operates as a kind of gendered neoliberalism. It has both spread out and intensified across contemporary culture and is becoming increasingly dependent upon a psychological register built around cultivating the 'right' kinds of dispositions for surviving in neoliberal society: confidence, resilience and positive mental attitude. Together these affective, cultural and psychic features of postfeminism exert a powerful regulatory force. This article forms part of 'On the Move', a special issue marking the twentieth anniversary of the journal. It also heads up a special online dossier on 'Postfeminism in the European Journal of Cultural Studies'.

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Section: Postfeminism: the Life And Times Of A Critical Termmentioning

confidence: 99%

The affective, cultural and psychic life of postfeminism: A postfeminist sensibility 10 years on

Gill

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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358

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“…Where earlier discussions focussed predominantly on media, the term now animates debates about work (Kelan, 2009), education (Ringrose, 2013), organizations (Lewis et al, forthcoming), peer culture (Winch, 2013Ringrose et al, 2013) the cultural and creative industries (Scharff, 2015), masculinities (Gwynne, 2013;Hamad, 2014;O'Neill, 2015a) and the body and sexuality (McRobbie, 2015;Elias et al, 2016). Far from receding or losing analytical relevance the notion seems to be gaining prominence as a way of engaging with some of the distinctive gendered features of contemporary neoliberal societies.…”

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Post-postfeminism?: new feminist visibilities in postfeminist times

Gill

2016

Feminist Media Studies

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. This article contributes to debates about the value and utility of the notion of postfeminism for a seemingly "new" moment marked by a resurgence of interest in feminism in the media and among young women. The paper reviews current understandings of postfeminism and criticisms of the term's failure to speak to or connect with contemporary feminism. It offers a defence of the continued importance of a critical notion of postfeminism, used as an analytical category to capture a distinctive contradictory-but-patterned sensibility intimately connected to neoliberalism. The paper raises questions about the meaning of the apparent new visibility of feminism and highlights the multiplicity of different feminisms currently circulating in mainstream media culture -which exist in tension with each other. I argue for the importance of being able to "think together" the rise of popular feminism alongside and in tandem with intensified misogyny. I further show how a postfeminist sensibility informs even those media productions that ostensibly celebrate the new feminism. Ultimately, the paper argues that claims that we have moved "beyond" postfeminism are (sadly) premature, and the notion still has much to offer feminist cultural critics. Permanent repository link:

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“…Hamad points in particular to "the ubiquitous figure of the widowed single father," which "engenders audience investment in melancholic fathers and their emotional trajectories" (17,24). I read Single…”

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The Symbolic Annihilation of Mothers in Popular Culture:Single Fatherand the death of the mother

Åström

2015

Feminist Media Studies

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PostprintThis is the accepted version of a paper published in Feminist Media Studies. This paper has been peerreviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination. ostensibly is employed to create sympathy for a character, or simply to drive the plot, often also privileges fathers, suggesting that children are better off without mothers. After a brief genre overview of the use of the trope of the dead mother on film and television, the article analyses how the BBC serial Single Father (2010), with its repeated depictions of the mother's violent death, develops the trope, by not only privileging the father and vilifying the dead mother, but also reducing her death to a plot point, a backdrop for romance.

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Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film

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The affective, cultural and psychic life of postfeminism: A postfeminist sensibility 10 years on

The affective, cultural and psychic life of postfeminism: A postfeminist sensibility 10 years on

Post-postfeminism?: new feminist visibilities in postfeminist times

The Symbolic Annihilation of Mothers in Popular Culture:Single Fatherand the death of the mother

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