{"product_id":"9780813930756","title":"Chick Lit and Postfeminism","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally a euphemism for Princeton University’s Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, \"chick lit\" mutated from a movement in American women’s avant-garde fiction in the 1990s to become, by the turn of the century, a humorous subset of women’s literature, journalism, and advice manuals. Stephanie Harzewski examines such best sellers as  \u003ci\u003eBridget Jones’s Diary\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Devil Wears Prada,\u003c\/i\u003e and  \u003ci\u003eSex and the City\u003c\/i\u003e as urban appropriations of and departures from the narrative traditions of the novel of manners, the popular romance, and the bildungsroman. Further, Harzewski uses chick lit as a lens through which to view gender relations in U.S. and British society in the 1990s.  \u003ci\u003eChick Lit and Postfeminism\u003c\/i\u003e is the first sustained historicization of this major pop-cultural phenomenon, and Harzewski successfully demonstrates how chick lit and the critical study of it yield social observations on upheavals in Anglo-American marriage and education patterns, heterosexual rituals, feminism, and postmodern values.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080140046576,"sku":"9780813930756","price":21.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780813930756_p0.jpg?v=1763745234","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780813930756","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}