Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture

Abstract

Introduction Feminism, Post-feminism and Stacy Gillis (Newcastle University, UK) & Joanne Hollows (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Feminism and Domesticity 1. Australian Film, History and the Justine Lloyd (University of Technology, Australia) 2. Cleaning and Clearing Out of Domestic Space: Feminism and the Development of Consumer Culture, 1950-1980 Lydia Martens (Durham University, UK) 3. 'Shall I be Mother?' Motherhood and Domesticity in Popular Culture Wendy Parkins (University of Otago, New Zealand) 4. 'Staying Home, Doing Nothing': and Feminist Generations Linda Scott (University of Illinois, US) Post-feminism and Domesticity 5. The Husbandless Homes: Widowhood and Sarah Gamble (University of Wales Swansea, UK) 6. Wannabe Housewives: Postfeminism and the Revival of Stephanie Genz (University of Stirling, UK) 7. Consuming Nigella Lise Shapiro Sanders (Hampshire College, US) 8. The Horror of Home: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Postfeminist Melanie Waters (University of Newcastle, UK) Doing Domesticity 9. 'There's no such thing, like a female with good looks, who cooks and cleans': Gendering Housework in Norway Annechen Bahr Bugge and Ingun Grimstad Klepp (University of Oslo, Norway) 10. Ready-Maid Postfeminism: Assessing the Figure of the Suzanne Leonard (University of Wisconsin, US) 11. Marguerite Patten, Television Cookery and Post-War British Femininity: Reconstructing Early Television for Women in Britain Rachel Moseley (Warwick University, UK) 12. Telling the Classed Self: Reality Television and Audience Negotiations of Ethics Beverley Skeggs (Goldsmiths College, UK), Nancy Thumim (Goldsmiths College, UK) & Helen Wood (University of Manchester, UK) Representing Domesticity 13. The Hysterical Housewife Pamela Church Gibson (University of the Arts, UK) 14. Desiring Domesticity: Personal, Political and Domestic Spaces Stacy Gillis (University of Newcastle, UK) 15. On Knitting Circles, Sisterhood and Second Wave Feminism: Politics of Experience in Six Feet Under Kristyn Gorton (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) 16. Getting Lost: Or, where did Nora go when she walked out of the doll's house? Anna Hunt (University of Exeter, UK)