Girls: Notes on authenticity, ambivalence and imperfection

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Gill, Rosalind. 2017. Girls: Notes on authenticity, ambivalence and imperfection. In: Meredith Nash and Imelda Whelehan, eds. Reading Lena Dunham's Girls: Feminism, postfeminism, authenticity, and gendered performance in contemporary television. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 225-242. ISBN 9783319529707 [Book Section]

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This chapter offers an afterword to the collection, discussing key themes and contributions. Three broad discussions are the focus: the representation of Lena Dunham’s body, sex in Girls, and the value of the notion of postfeminism for analysing Girls in particular and popular cultural texts more generally. The chapter pays particular attention to questions of vulnerability and imperfection, highlighting the need for scholarship that takes seriously the affective and psychic life of postfeminism.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52971-4_16

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This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-52971-4_16

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