Description: The first book to conceptualise the female dandy, which is presented as a figure that simultaneously embodies and ruptures postfeminist notions of femininity.
Brief description: Nathalie Weidhase is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Surrey, UK. She has published on women in popular music and celebrity feminism in the journal Celebrity Studies, as well as in the collection Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing: Freeze Frame(2015).
Review Quotes:
"The female dandy is a fascinating figure, especially when located in the context of the ongoing demands of postfeminism. But until now, studies on female dandyism have been limited. Weidhase addresses this gap, presenting the first in-depth theorisation of the female dandy in popular music. The result is a valuable, timely, and compelling contribution to the fields of feminist studies and cultural studies." --Samantha Lindop, Teaching Associate, University of Queensland, Australia
"This book theorizes the female pop dandy both rigorously and productively, showing how the figure operates variously in compliance with and as a subversion of postfeminist protocols. In so doing, it makes a most valuable intervention into ongoing debates about the status of postfeminism, its recent modulation by heteropessimism and the complexities of abjection in relation to marginalization." --Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture, University College Dublin, Ireland