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Women, know your limits: Cultural sexism in academia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Despite the considerable advances of the feminist movement across Western societies, in Universities women are less likely to be promoted, or paid as much as their male colleagues, or even get jobs in the first place.
Atakav E   +27 more
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Postfeminism and Health

open access: yes, 2018
Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of ‘postfeminist healthism,’ a twenty-first-century understanding of women’s physical and mental health formed at the intersections of postfeminist sensibilities, neoliberal constructs ...
Riley, Sarah   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Politics of/and Backlash [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Since the publication of Susan Faludi’s book in 1991, the terms “backlash” and “postfeminism” have come to be widely used in many feminist analyses to critique—and then usually dismiss—representations of both women and feminism throughout media and ...
Braithwaite, Ann
core   +1 more source

When Sleeping Beauty Wakes: Spectacle and Romantic Fantasy In Twilight (2008)

open access: yesJournal of Popular Romance Studies, 2016
The Twilight film saga revisits and revises the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ fairy tale, engaging with the Perrault and Grimm versions of the tale in particular. This is evident in the films’ repeated representations of the slumbering girl awaiting her true love’s ...
Athena Bellas
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Trending now: feminism, sexism, misogyny and postfeminism in British journalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In the last few years feminism has gained spectacular visibility across media and popular culture. As Sarah Banet-Weiser (2018) observes, “everywhere you turn, there is an expression of feminism – on a T-shirt, in a movie, in the lyrics of a pop song ...
Gill, R., Toms, K.
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Confidence culture and the remaking of feminism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper we explore how confidence works as a technology of self, exhorting women and girls to act upon themselves, and how it is reconfiguring feminist concerns.
Gill, R., Orgad, S. S.
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Postfeminist Representation: Masculinity on the Verge of Identity Crisis

open access: yesGender Studies
Numerous studies on the popular icon Barbie have focused on the representation of the character Ken. This study aims to investigate the extent of masculinity employed in Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster picture Barbie (2023).
Cornea Diana-Maria
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