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Imelda Whelehan's Overloaded: Feminism and Popular Culture looks at various aspects of popular culture: men's magazines (Loaded, Maxim, GQ); tv shows (Ally McBeal, Sex in the City, Men Behaving Badly) and novels (Bridget Jones' Diary). She finds a "nostalgia for the 'old order' of babes, breasts and uncomplicated relationships", disguised and aided by modern "ironic" attitudes that allow sexist representations to go unchallenged.
The discussion of feminism is dominated by the idea of a "backlash" of more or less unconsciously internalised hostility towards women's success and against feminist ideas--reminiscent of Susan Faludi's book of the same name. Armed with this overarching and somewhat amorphous idea, Whelehan discusses not only popular culture but also recent publications on the state of modern feminism by Natasha Walter, Ros Coward, Christine Hoff Sommers, Rene Denfield and Katie Roiphe. Whelehan stands herself with feminists such as Germaine Greer and Faludi, whom she sees as relatively uncorrupted by the "backlash" mentality and thus implicit defenders of the academic establishment.
Although one of Whelehan's chief intentions is "to show how reductive the accusation of totalitarianism lodged by some 'new' feminists can be", she fails to present the case for the prosecution and, like Faludi before her, dismisses legitimate criticisms as evidence of a "backlash". Disappointingly, any criticisms made of feminists or any sympathy shown for the plight of men is not taken up on its own terms but rather is glossed over and/or ignored completely. Those interested in discovering why prominent feminists are under attack in and out of the American academy should read Christine Hoff Sommers well-researched and accessible book Who Stole Feminism? How women have betrayed women. While never pedantic, ultimately Overloaded is underfilled with the thorough analysis contemporary feminist criticism needs.--Larry Brown
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This volume examines the phenomenon of laddishness and the cult of the girlie in film, TV, advertising, music, politics, literature and society. It interprets these trends as a nostalgic longing for a pre-feminist society which, through the medium of comedy and irony, has been manipulated by popular media as a liberation from political correctness. Contrasting the culture icons of the 1990s with the 1970s tough chicks and the 1980s New Man and Have-It-All Woman, the book aims to show how the rhetoric of "laddism" emerged and how it has infused so many aspects of our cultural identity.
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