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Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism's Work Is Done
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by Susan J. Douglas (Author) (edit contributors)

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From the author of Where the Girls Are , a sharp and irreverent critique of how women are portrayed in today’s popular culture Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either be strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding... read more

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In October 1990, while most of America was atching Roseanne, Coach, L.A. Law, America's Funniest Home Videos, and the buildup to Operation Desert Storm on CNN, the still fledgling Fox network debuted a show on Thursday nights, opposite Cheers, the top rated program in the country.

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Introduction: Fantasies of Power

1. Get the Girls
2. Castration Anxiety
3. Warrior Women in Thongs
4. The New Girliness
5. You Go, Girl
6. Sex "R" Us
7. Reality Bites
8. Lean and Mean
9. Red Carpet Mania
10. Women on Top... Sort Of

Epilogue: The F-Word

Notes

Acknowledgments

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  1. Susan J. Douglas (Author)

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