From domestic goddess to desperate housewife, What a Girl Wants explores the importance and centrality of postfeminism in contemporary popular culture.

Diane Negra is Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture at University College Dublin. She is author of Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom, editor of The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture and co-editor of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema and Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture.

1: Introduction 2: Postfeminism, Family Values, and the Social Fantasy of the Hometown 3: Time Crisis and the New Postfeminist Life Cycle 4: Postfeminist Working Girls: New Archetypes of the Female Labor Market 5: Hyperdomesticity, Self-Care and the Well-Lived Life in Postfeminism