Editors:
- Challenges and critiques some of the ways scholars have read Dunham’s work and reconsiders her position as a feminist celebrity
- Positions Girls in relation to other key millennial postfeminist texts, as well as considers the impact of contemporary socio-economic realities on the shaping and reception of the show
- Focuses on both male and female characters in Girls
- Features voices of key scholars in the field who originated debates around the place of postfeminism in contemporary media culture such as Imelda Whelehan, Rosalind Gill and Stephanie Genz
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Postfeminism(s)
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Performing and Representing Millennial Identities
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Sex, Sexuality, and Bodies
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About this book
Reviews
“This collection takes a fresh approach to examining what is arguably one of the most significant television dramas of the 21st century so far. The contributors pass an insightful gaze onto a plethora of postfeminist anxieties, but also issues of production and reception in the context of television as a cultural industry. Nash and Whelehan’s superb collection will prove to be of immense value to scholars and students working within anumber of diverse disciplines.” (Joel Gwynne, Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
“With fifteen chapters ranging on topics from sex and bodies to masculinity and music, Reading Girls comprehensively considers and engages with the myriad debates about Lena Dunham's show and her authorial identity…It is a book anyone interested in twenty-first century television and gender must have.” (Shelley Cobb, Associate Professor of Film, University of Southampton, UK)
“With its provocative depiction of class, race, age, sexual and body politics, and positioning at the interface between feminisms (both conventional and emergent) and postfeminisms, Girls has proven itself a lightning rod for debates about gender and generation in recent years. Nash and Whelehan have gathered together a set of essays that move those debates on substantially and collectively illuminate a landmark TV series.” (Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture, University College Dublin, Ireland)
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Tasmania , Hobart, Australia
Meredith Nash
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Office of the Vice-Chancellor, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Imelda Whelehan
About the editors
Imelda Whelehan is Dean of Higher Degree Research at the Australian National University. Her books include Overloaded (2000), Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary (2002), The Feminist Bestseller (2005), and she is co-author of Key Concepts in Gender Studies with Jane Pilcher (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reading Lena Dunham’s Girls
Book Subtitle: Feminism, postfeminism, authenticity and gendered performance in contemporary television
Editors: Meredith Nash, Imelda Whelehan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52971-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52970-7Published: 07 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85027-6Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52971-4Published: 23 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 255
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Screen Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Theory, Media Studies, American Culture