Media Discourses and Postfeminism: An Analysis of Gender Logic in the Year of the Woman

274 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.As a set of organizing beliefs and codes that operate to structure cultural messages, this logic sets the terms and boundaries of the ways in which public, political women are discussed; thus, it exerts considerable influence on democratic processes. In this study I both analyze postfeminism and address issues of its production; specifically, I make recommendations for the amelioration of a reliance on postfeminist beliefs at the level of cultural production.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD