Final girls, feminism and popular culture

Chess For Girls?: Feminism and Computer Games

A recent Saturday Night Live show (Dec. 6, 1997) featured a pseudo-commercial for ‘Chess for Girls.’ The skit opens with a brother and sister playing chess; the boy soon moves to checkmate his sibling. The girl replies, “Chess is no fun!”, and sweeps the parts off the board in disgust. An announcer comes on and says, “Don’t worry, now there’s Chess for Girls!”, and the commercial launches into ...

Christianity and Popular Culture

Care and Danger: Feminism and Therapy Culture

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, several prominent feminist legal scholars made a case for “difference feminism.” Inspired by psychologist Carol Gilligan’s classic text, In a Different Voice, these scholars argued that social relationships, caring, and the emotions should be recognized as important to jurisprudence and legal regulation. Today, difference feminism is no longer a dominant mov...

Book Review: Lehman, J, Katherine,Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture

Myths of Popular Culture

The aim of this article is to explore some critical moments in the formation of ‘popular’ culture studies. This objective is not exhaustive, cannot be exhaustive in the space of a single article, since popular cultural studies have grown into an academic industry which not even five live-times of academic work by any individual can exhaust! This article is therefore, a rapid but hopefully, prov...