Notes from Text
- 'In films like Miss Congeniality (Petrie, 2000), Legally Blonde (Luketic, 2001) and The Devil Wears Prada (Frankel, 2006) these negative traits are associated with a feminism that is now irrelevant and which must be rejected by the heroine in her search for successful female selfhood'.
- Mulvey (male gaze)... 'thus presents as neutral or natural what is in fact a highly constructed mode of discourse'.
- Virginia Woolf... 'women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size'.
- 'If feminist theory has critiqued femininity and the multiple sites and structures through which it is constructed, postfeminism celebrates its return. It is a femininity still naturalised as both destiny and ideal for women, to be achieved through constant self-surveillance, self-modification and consumption, but one which is now seen as productive of female power and pleasure. The difference comes through the operation of choice: this very traditional-looking femininity is presented as the outcome of individual choice for the contemporary young woman'.
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