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The classification of feminism into “waves” has periodized the movement, but it has also emphasized differences and conflicts between generations of women. In a follow-up volume to The Unruly Woman (1995), Kathleen Rowe Karlyn explores the representation of these generational tensions in film and television of the 1990s and early 2000s. Focusing mostly on media products targeted to and depicting teenage girls and young women, Karlyn examines not only images of “unruly,” postfeminist, youthful femininity but also characterizations of those girls’ mothers. In describing these maternal portrayals as “unrepentant” Karlyn emphasizes that older generations need not accept the erasure and/or demonization that the culture of their daughters too often assigns them. Karlyn analyzes the media texts of “Girl Culture” to understand their appeal to a generation born into a world changed by feminism, as well as to critique the ways these daughters too often reject the generation that made feminism possible.
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