Postfeminism in the British Frame

Cinema Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 127-132

  Ashby, Justine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60949721285     PISSN: 00097101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cj.2005.0002     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. See, for example, Tania Modleski, Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a "Postfeminist" Age (London: Routledge, 1991)
2. Sarah Projansky, Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture (New York: NYU Press, 2001)
3. or the more populist accounts, such as Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War against Women (London: Chatto and Windus, 1991)
4. The total number of Labour MPs elected in 1997 was 418, out of a total of 658. Clearly, women were still underrepresented in Parliament, but New Labour's selection policy for that election had, to be fair, gone some way to begin to redress the balance
5. "Blair's Babes" included more mature MPs, such as Mo Mowlam and Clare Short, both of whom forged political careers in keeping with a more traditional feminism
6. Not only did Blair meet with various "Britpop" celebrities, but he also made presentations at both the Q and Brit music awards in 1996. For a detailed discussion of New Labour's relationship with Britpop, see John Harris, The Last Party: Britpop, Blair, and the Demise of English Rock (London: Harper Perennial, 2003)
7. "Cool Britannia" became something of a buzz term following Newsweek's November 4, 1996, cover story, "London Rules," which declared that "London is the coolest capital on the planet."
8. Spice Girls, Girlpower (London: Zone, 1997), 6
9. Interview, The Spice Girls (Warner Video, 1997)
10. Projansky, Watching Rape, 67. Projansky identifies three other principal paradigms: "linear postfeminism," "backlash postfeminism," and "equality and choice postfeminism."
11. In the run up to the 2001 election, New Labour enlisted the support of another postfeminist icon, Britney Spears. Despite being an American citizen, according to a BBC report on May 16, 2001, she publicly endorsed the New Labour Party
12. See, for example, Chadha's interview on PlanetOut.com
13. Chadha commented on Blair's letter in a number of interviews. See, for example, www.planetout.com or www.campuscircle.net
14. Projansky, Watching Rape, 67
15. Many of New Labour's policies have eschewed the traditional polarization between Right and Left and have continued to pursue the Thatcherite value of "choice" in education and healthcare, for example