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Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Girlfriend culture
• The girlfriend gaze: Normative cruelties : Mean girls ; Who cares about letting go? : Heat magazine ; Gynaeopticon ; 'How I went from fat to fit' : Erotic capital ; School girls to cougars
• BFF co-brands: Misogyny : Trinny and Susannah ; Health : Skinny bitch ; How to be a girl : Fearne and Holly ; 'I have been the same weight since I was fourteen' ; Frenemies
• Strategic sisterhoods: Girlfriend reflexivity : Sex and the city ; Social capital ; Carrie Bradshaw as self-brand ; Plastic women : Lipstick jungle ; 'I'm hiding testicles under my skirt!' : the masquerade ; Exclusive sisterhoods : Cashmere mafia ; 'Friendship is just another word for foreplay' : The L word ; Fandom and co-producing media brands
• Womance: The girlfriend flick ; Competition : In her shoes and Baby mama ; Bridezillas : Bride wars and Sex and the city 1 ; Intergenerational : The Devil wears Prada and The women ; Imperfect : Bridesmaids and Your sister's sister
• Making white lives better?: The mammy : The help and Sex and the city 1 ; Orientalism : Sex and the city 2 ; White feminism : 2 broke girls ; Deconstructing girlfriendship: Girls
• Catfight: Branded sociality : The hills ; Rivalry : Paris Hilton ; Slut-shaming: Sorority girls ; Surveillance, comparison and the self-brand
• Class and British reality television: The contact zone : What not to wear ; Loving meanness : Cook yourself thin ; The other woman : Wife swap
• The friendship market: Here comes the brand ; Celebrity brands ; Weight loss convergence ; Facebook friends
• Conclusion: Feminism, friendship and conflict..

Author/Creator:

Winch, Alison

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Girlfriends and postfeminist sisterhood [by Winch, A.]

Subjects:

Female friendship

Friendship in adolescence

Women in mass media

Television and women

Women on television

General Notes:

Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-214) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ1206 .W729 2013eb

ISBNs:

9781137312747 (electronic bk.)
1137312742 (electronic bk.)
9780230348752 [Invalid]
0230348750 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

865543202

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1588783 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11696512