CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A New Style of Femininity1. Contextual Crossroads: African Women in the World of Things2. Choosing It All: From Pleasure to Self-Confidence to Pain3. "I'm Working, You Know": The Serious Business of Spectacularity4. Globally Black, "Naija," and Fabulous: Asserting Authentic Selves5. "Not That Kinda Girl": Resignifying Hyperfemininity for Postfeminist TimesConclusion: A New Fashion for Feminism?NotesBibliographyIndexBack Cover
Simidele Dosekun is an assistant professor in media and communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
"Fashioning Postfeminism is a superb book. Often theoretically
dazzling, it effectively opens a new window onto postfeminism. It
will also make a defining contribution to the newly burgeoning
field of decolonial global fashion studies, effectively modeling a
balance of local specificity with the transnational." --Hypatia
"This brilliantly-executed and theoretically exciting book places
Dosekun on the frontlines of radically decolonial cultural and
feminist theory. The author critically explores the "unhappy
technologies," utilised by women determined to re-invent themselves
for themselves, not in NY or London, but in the cultural ferment of
the global African city of Lagos. Fashioning Postfeminism advances
the theorization of feminine agency and subjectivity beyond the
inherent coloniality of US and UK (Western) cultural and feminist
studies. Dosekun's adept analysis details contemporary elite
women's psychic and material investments in the 'unhappy'
technologies and cosmetic practices in the pursuit of
individualised fantasies of power and happiness in the neoliberal
world."—Amina Mama, author of Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and
Subjectivity
"This book brilliantly challenges the assumption of whiteness and
the Western location of the postfeminist female subject,
documenting how postfeminism circulates well beyond the Global
North. Dosekun demonstrates a rare sensitivity to place and to the
specific norms circulating that space, which, as she underscores,
shape the way in which postfeminism is taken up. The arguments are
forceful, and the empirical material is handled with great care,
sensitivity, and insight."—Catherine Rottenberg, author of The Rise
of Neoliberal Feminism
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