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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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2005

Feminist

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In Pursuit Of Feminist Postfeminism And The Blessings Of Buttercup, Teresa Hubel Jun 2005

In Pursuit Of Feminist Postfeminism And The Blessings Of Buttercup, Teresa Hubel

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Introduction:

I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in thinking that the term “postfeminism” is often and perhaps most frequently used—by the mainstream media generally and by actual people—as a kind of casual dismissal of feminism that comes implicitly coupled with the suggestion that the cutting-edge place to be these days, with regard to women, is the one where the old victim mentality has been sloughed off and a new flying-free-of-those-chains approach to gender in all its diversity and in all its equal opportunity has been boldly embraced. Given the terms of this unstated argument, any criticism of this postfeminism automatically …