Feminism and Female Sexuality
Sex, Feminism and Lesbian Desire in Women’s Magazines
1st Edition
By Kate Farhall
April 29, 2022
This book examines evolving pop culture representations of sex and relationships from the 1970s onwards, to demonstrate parallels between the strength of the feminist movement and positive portrayals of women’s sexuality. In charting changes in the sex and relationship content of women’s magazines ...
Postfeminism in Context: Women, Australian Popular Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism
1st Edition
By Margaret Henderson, Anthea Taylor
June 30, 2021
Postfeminism in Context studies the representation of women in Australian popular culture over the past three decades to locate postfeminism in a specific time and place.Margaret Henderson and Anthea Taylor argue that ‘postfeminism’, as a critical term, has been too often deployed in ways that fail...
Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation
1st Edition
By Hannah McCann
September 05, 2019
Queering Femininity focuses on femininity as a style of gender presentation and asks how (and whether) it can be refigured as a creative and queer style of the body. Drawing on a range of feminist texts and interviews with self-identifying queer femmes from the LGBTQ community, Hannah McCann argues...