[Commlist] New Book: Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture

New book, Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and 
Transnational Culture.

The book is available in hard and soft back from the US publisher and UK 
distributor, and electronically from the publisher. A little information 
about the book and links to where it can be purchased are below.


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Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black 
beauty. From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to high 
heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media 
representations of women not only in a swatch of Africa but across an 
increasingly globalized world.

Simidele Dosekun's interviews and critical analysis consider the female 
subjectivities these women are performing and desiring. She finds that 
the women embody the postfeminist idea that their unapologetically 
immaculate beauty signals--but also constitutes--feminine power. As 
empowered global consumers and media citizens, the women deny any need 
to critique their culture or to take part in feminism's collective 
political struggle. Throughout, Dosekun unearths evocative details 
around the practical challenges to attaining their style, examines the 
gap between how others view these women and how they view themselves, 
and engages with ideas about postfeminist self-fashioning and 
subjectivity across cultures and class.

Publisher: 
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/68xcb7dm9780252043215.html

UK distributor:
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252085086/fashioning-postfeminism/

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