Chick Lit and Postfeminism

Chick Lit and Postfeminism is certain to advance the study of chick lit and add depth and sophistication to our understanding of its origins and development.- Suzanne Ferris, Professor of English at Nova Southeastern University, and Mallory Young, Professor of English at Tarleton State University, Editors of Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction/i>, Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies;

""Chick Lit and Postfeminism's perspective on this relatively understudied genre competently assess how chick lit intertwines women, consumption, and romance in mutually enticing ways and explains how contemporary socioeconomic norms have provided fertile ground for such associations.""- Suzanne Leonard, Assistant Professor of English, Simmons College, Contemporary Women's Writing;

""Chick Lit and Postfeminism is both extremely smart and extremely clear, an all-too rare combination in academia. Harzewski treats the subject seriously and in-depth, but also with a sense of humor, of lightness, recognizing both that the genre is massively popular and influential and also that it is ideologically complex.""- Robert A. Rushing, Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Author of Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture;

""The explosion of a new type of novel by and for women- dubbed, for better or worse,'chick lit'- has provoked much controversy in the mainstream press and in the literary world. Despite all the commotion over the works by the latest mob of 'damned scribbling women,' as Nathaniel Hawthorne called women writers of the nineteenth century, little scholarly attention has focused on these texts. Harzewski's is one of the first full-length studies devoted to chick lit, and the most wide-ranging to date. Chick Lit and Postfeminism is written in a clear, readable style and is a solid book that will be read with interest and no doubt taken up and debated.""- Tania Modleski, University of Southern California, author of Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a ""Postfeminist"" Age;

""Like Carrie Bradshaw in her Manolo Blahniks, Chick Lit and Postfeminism steps out in style. Smart, thoughtful, and well-written, it offers a historical understanding of this decidedly postfeminist genre, while offering insight into contemporary gender politics and femininity.""- Janet McCabe, Birkbeck, University of London, and coeditor of Reading Sex and the City;

""Chick Lit and Postfeminism is a bold and fascinating exploration of the 'most culturally visible form of postfeminist fiction'- chick lit. Demanding and sometimes dizzying in its range and readings, the book moors the genre in the commodified context of women's lives in the twenty-first century, refashioning our understanding of this irreverent, ubiquitous, and (contrary to popular belief) important genre of fiction.""- Mary Bly Eloisa James, Fordham University, New York Times best-selling author