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Fictional Feminism
By:Kim A. Loudermilk
Published on 2013-08-21 by Routledge

This book focuses on the ways in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movement. Kim Loudermilk provides close readings of four best-selling novels and their film adaptations. According to Loudermilk, each of these novels contains explicitly feminist characters and themes, yet each presents a curiously ambivalent picture of feminism; these texts at once take feminism seriously and subtly undercut its most central tenets. This book argues that these texts create a kind of |fictional feminism| that recuperates feminism's radical potential, thereby lessening the threat it presents to the status quo.

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This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you don't want to read is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it was designed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not really a play. Along with that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for each character for a few pages). None people had see the play before. None of us wanted to read it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. All this compounded to make me more or less hate reading classics for something similar to 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. Plus it can definitely fuck up your GPA. 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