Post‐feminism and popular culture

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Bridget Jones's Diary appeared first as a weekly column in The Independent UK newspaper in 1996, its author Helen Fielding then published the diaries in book form, and the film, Bridget Jones's Diary directed by Sharon McGuire, opened in 2001. The Daily Mail has the highest volume of female readers of all daily newspapers in the UK. Its most frequent efforts in regard to promoting a post‐feminist sensibility involve commissioning well known former feminists to recant, and blame feminism for contemporary ills among women, for example, Saturday August 23, 2003 has Fay Weldon on “Look What We've Done.” The caption then reads, “For years feminists…