..., regardless of his skin color. At the climax, Kenya leaves a Black society ball to go and find Brian and confess her love. The movie ends with Brian and Kenya getting married in Kenya’s Brian-cultivated, blooming backyard. Black women Black women’s hair chaos embodiment postfeminism romantic...

...?p=reprints . 2018 girl power individualism popular feminism postfeminism NOTES 1. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Kids Rule! Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007). 2. Historically, feminism in the United States has often been reductively...

...=reprints . 2018 convergence culture fan culture fan studies intersectionality postfeminism My experience of fan culture, my conception of fan studies as a field, and my own fan scholarly identity are intimately bound up with feminism. It was foregrounded in my initial encounters with fan...

... their power in part by preempting feminist critique with irony. It is precisely this ideological double bind that the comedian Amy Schumer confronts. This essay analyzes how Schumer develops a feminist critique of the knotty problems of postfeminist ideology. Postfeminism casts feminism as abject...