What a Girl Wants?: Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism

From domestic goddess to desperate housewife, What a Girl Wants explores the importance and centrality of postfeminism in contemporary popular culture. Introduction -- Postfeminism, family values, and the social fantasy of the hometown -- Time crisis and the new postfeminist lifecycle -- Postfeminist working girls : new archetypes of the female labor market -- Hyperdomesticity, self-care, and the well-lived life in postfeminism