Angela McRobbie: "Post‐feminism and popular culture"

1. denunciation of feminism in (popular) culture/media

1.1. "ideal girl"

1.2. undoing feminism

1.2.1. feminism = historicised and generationalised

1.3. “political correctness”

1.4. feminist condemnation --> publicity

1.5. hyper-culture of commercial sexuality

1.6. e.g. Bridget Jones

2. displacement of feminism as a political movement.

2.1. “female individualism”

2.1.1. avidly self-monitor

2.1.2. “reflexive modernisation”

2.2. withholding of critique --> freedom

3. double entanglement

3.1. neo-conservative values + liberalisation

3.2. common sense + hate

4. 90s: self-critique in feminist theory

4.1. centralised power blocks --> power conceptualised as flows

4.2. Brunsdon: “Pedagogies of the Feminine”

4.3. popular feminism

4.3.1. Andrea Stuart: feminist values in popular culture

4.3.2. Angela McRobbie

5. post-feminism

5.1. active process s by which feminist gains of the 1970s and 80s come to be undermined

5.2. equality is achieved --> feminism is no longer needed

5.3. feminism = historicised and generationalised