FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Riot Grrrl, Angela Mcrobbie, Postfeminism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Stephanie Patrick

Document Summary

Channeling her energy into (heterosexual) relationships, femininity, individualism. Mainstream/consumer culture appropriates, markets, and sells empowerment back to women. Female sexuality/feminism becomes a commodity, rather than a political statement. Internalization of and making desirable the male gaze . Post-feminism is not anti-feminist, it celebrates feminism as a success. Post-feminism: because women are now able to vote/work/get divorced/have sex, they are now equal. Feminism was a success, and it is now old-fashioned to call yourself a feminist. Angela mcrobbie, student of stuart hall and cultural studies. Emerges in western pop culture in the mid/late 1990s. Ideology that positions feminism as outdated, old-fashioned, not cool. Double entanglement = neoconservative values (around family, sexuality) coexist with a liberal embrace of choice (but the right choices) Ideology = a set of ideas, values, tastes and/or beliefs expounded by a particular social group, organization, religion, or culture . Post-feminist ideologies are sold to women through women"s genres. First-person narratives told from (white, professional) female point-of-view.