9.

Dale Spender wrote in a subtitle to the 1994 book Weddings & Wives that "many
women want to have weddings: few of them want to be wives." How true do you
think this is of young women now, in the 21st Century? To what extent can this be
related to "third wave" or "post" feminism?
Suggested Reading (see lecture script on the topic for more references, or find your
own. Academic material can be supplemented by newspaper and internet material.
Continued over the page):
On Weddings:
Bell, Vikki. “Taking Her Hand: Becoming, Time and the Cultural Politics of the White
Wedding”. Cultural Values, 1998, 2, 4, Oct: 463-484
Boden, Sharon. “'Superbrides': Wedding Consumer Culture and the Construction of
Bridal Identity”. Sociological Research Online, 2001, 6, 1, May
Geller, Jaclyn Here comes the bride: women, weddings, and the marriage mystique
New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, c2001. HQ745.G45/2001
Harrison, Lyn. “ 'It's a Nice Day for a White Wedding': The Debutante Ball and
Constructions of Femininity”. Feminism & Psychology, 1997, 7, 4, Nov: 495-516.
Kingston, Anne, The Meaning of Wife, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005.- on order MQ
library
- See REVIEW BY KATE SAUNDERS in The Sunday Times, February 27, 2005
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1496529,00.html)
Spender, Dale, ed. Weddings & Wives: Australian women writers on modern
marriage. Penguin Books, 1994.
Valentine, Gill; Butler, Ruth. “The Alternative Fairy Story: Diana and the Sexual
Dissidents”. Journal of Gender Studies, 1999, 8, 3, Nov: 295-302
On Third Wave/Post Feminism
Arneil, Barbara. " Third Wave Feminism (s): the View at, of and from the Border(s)"
in Politics and feminism: an introduction. Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell,
1999. HQ1236 .A76/1999
Bail, Kathy, ed. DIY Feminism, Allen & Unwin, 1996. HQ1822 .D58
Barrett, Michèle. "Post-feminism" in Understanding contemporary society: theories
of the present, ed. Gary Browning, Abigail Halcli and Frank Webster. London;
Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage Publications, 2000. H61 .U638
Brooks, Ann. Postfeminisms: feminism, cultural theory, and cultural forms.
London; New York, Routledge, 1997. RESERVE: HQ1190 .B764/1997
Coppock, Vicki Deena Haydon, and Ingrid Richter. The illusions of "post-feminism":
new women, old myths. London, Bristol, PA : Taylor & Francis, 1995. HQ1593
.C66/1995
Denfeld, Rene. The New Victorians: A Young Woman’s Challenge to the Old Feminist
Order, Allen & Unwin, 1995. HQ1190.5.U6 .D46/1995
Ebert, Teresa L. Ludic feminism and after postmodernism, desire, and labor in late
capitalism. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, c1996. HQ1190 .E24/1996
Heywood, Leslie and Jennifer Drake, eds. Third wave agenda: being feminist, doing
feminism. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1997. HQ1421 .T455/1997
Powers, Ann. Weird like us: my bohemian America. New York, Simon & Schuster,
c2000. E169.O4 .P69/2000
Prokhovnik, Raia. "The third wave: the future of feminism" in Rational woman:
a feminist critique of dichotomy. London, Routledge, 1999. B812 .P77/1999
Roiphe, Katie. The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism, Hamish Hamilton,
1993. LC197 .R65
Scutt, Jocelynne A., ed. Growing up feminist: the new generation of Australian
women; Growing up feminist too: raising women, raising consciousness. Melbourne,
Artemis Publishing, 1995. HQ1822 .G7/1995
Sommers, Christine Hoff. Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women,
Touchstone, 1994. HQ1154 .S613/1994
Trioli, Virginia. Generation f: Sex, Power and the Young Feminist, Minerva, 1996.
HQ1822 .T75