Waters, Melanie (2017) Bad Sex and the City? Feminist (Re)Awakenings in HBO’s Girls. In: Reading Lena Dunham's Girls: Feminism, postfeminism, authenticity and gendered performance in contemporary television. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 75-90. ISBN 978-3-319-52970-7
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Abstract
This chapter argues that Dunham’s Girls (2012-) makes a deliberate attempt to resuscitate second wave debates about female sexual and reproductive autonomy that ‘postfeminist’ fictions had once appeared to lay to rest. By asking what is at stake in the show’s candid treatment of consent and abortion, this chapter not only investigates the controversies that have arisen over Dunham’s feminism, but also argues that it is by identifying what distinguishes Girls from a previous generation of female-centred fictions that we might better understand the evolving currency of feminism in popular culture.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319529707 |
| Subjects: | Q300 English studies |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities |
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| Depositing User: | Melanie Waters |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2017 10:21 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2019 19:25 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/31213 |
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