[Commlist] New book - Women in Neoliberal Postfeminist Television Drama

New book
/Women in Neoliberal Postfeminist Television Drama: Representing 
gendered Experiences of the Second World War


https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030304485


1st ed. 2019, IX, 134 p.

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Women in Neoliberal

Postfeminist Television

Drama
Representing Gendered Experiences of the Second World War

Demonstrates that postfeminism, far from being a spent force, remains a 
structuring need in representations of women’s history on television 
Offers a new perspective to debates on representations of women’s 
experiences of the Second World War and moves the discussion beyond 
questions regarding historical accuracy

Elaborates on the relationship between television and cultural memory 
and the importance of television as a site of memory and identity 
construction for groups whose stories are marginalised in mainstream 
histories

“In this insightful book, Cat Mahoney offers a fascinating analysis of 
contemporary TV dramas such as Home Fires, Land Girls and The Bletchley 
Circle. Developing the idea that history is told through the 
preoccupations of the present, she argues compellingly that these are 
postfeminist dramas which work through troubling ideas about 
heteronormative romance, domesticity, beauty and whiteness, while 
reinforcing the idea that feminism as a political movement is not 
necessary. A bold and original contribution to television studies, 
gender studies and popular history.” Rosalind Gill, City, University of 
London, UK By examining contemporary television drama set during and 
immediately after the Second World War, this book illustrates the ways 
in which postfeminism has shaped representations of women in 
contemporary culture. Mahoney offers a new perspective to debates that 
have previously been concerned with questions of historical accuracy. 
She argues that depictions of women from the past in modern television 
drama spawn from the neoliberal postfeminist media climate which 
originated in the 1990s.


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