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Why Girls? Why now?

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posted on 2023-05-22, 22:11 authored by Meredith NashMeredith Nash, Whelehan, I
This chapter introduces readers to a range of scholarship and outlines the key reasons why the HBO TV series Girls has caused such controversy over its first five seasons, and why it is the show many feminists love to hate. The feminist content of this and other media productions, its relationship to a ‘postfeminist sensibility’, and the celebrity feminism of Lena Dunham are brought to the fore. This chapter reviews key critical scholarship in the area and highlights important new areas of investigation. With a helpful introduction to the work of each contributor, it responds to Girls as a millennial text with an important gendered message, whilst anticipating and foregrounding important criticisms of its blind spots, and the perils of putting feminism into popular culture.

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Publication title

Reading Lena Dunham's Girls: feminism, postfeminism, authenticity and gendered performance in contemporary television

Editors

M Nash and I Whelehan

Pagination

1-16

ISBN

9783319529707

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Springer International Publishing AG

Extent

16

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Copyright 2017 The Editors and The Authors

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