Feminism and Popular Culture: Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique

Feminism and Popular Culture: Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique When the term “postfeminism” entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines about the “death of feminism.” Those reports of feminism’s death may have been greatly exaggerated, and yet contemporary popular culture often conjures up a world in which feminism had…