Table of Contents

Introduction; Postfeminism In and Out of Context; Chapter One Chick Lit: Novels of Postfeminist Independence and Aspiration; Chapter Two Television Dramedies: Refiguring Gendered Intimacy and Postfeminist Kinship on the Small Screen; Chapter Three Women’s Magazines: Dreamscapes of Postfeminist Abundance; Chapter Four YouTube beauty vlogs: Intimate publics and postfeminist confidence and care; Chapter Five Self-Help Books: Calculating Magic as Postfeminist Everyday Philosophy; Chapter Six Political Journalism: Women leaders, Constrained Power, and the Rhetoric of Post Gender; Conclusion Australian Postfeminism as Popular Feminism

About the Author

Margaret Henderson lectures in literary studies at the University of Queensland. She has published extensively on feminist culture and contemporary women’s writing, including a book-length study of Australian feminist cultural memory, Marking Feminist Times.

Anthea Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is author of three books in feminist literary and cultural studies, including Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster.