Chick lit: the new woman's fiction
Ferriss' and Young's exploration of the chick lit phenomenon takes a look at issues, such as race, sexuality, class and gender to reveal the positive and negative reactions this genre has provoked.
Women, media and consumption in Japan
The first book of its kind to examine images of women in Japanese consumerism, "Women, Media and Consumption in Japan" explores a variety of media targeted at women - in particular magazines, but also television, popular literature and consumer trends. Written by anthropologists…
' Postmodernism' and ' feminism' have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waug…