Chick Flicks

Suzanne Ferriss is Professor of English at Nova Southeastern University. She has co-edited two volumes on the cultural study of fashion: On Fashion and Footnotes: On Shoes. She is also co-author of A Handbook of Literary Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 2002). Most recently, she co-edited Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction (Routledge, 2006) with Mallory Young.Mallory Young is Professor of English and French at Tarleton State University. She has published on a variety of topics, from the Odyssey to Texas women’s literature and, with Suzanne Ferriss, has co-authored several articles on chick culture. She and Ferriss co-edited Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction (Routledge, 2006).

• CHICK FLICKS: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AT THE MOVIES Table of Contents Acknowledgments vi Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young, Introduction: Chick Flicks 1 and Chick Culture Maureen Turim, Women’s Films: Comedy, Drama, Romance 41 Suzanne Ferriss, Fashioning Femininity in the Makeover Flick 67 Carol M. Dole, The Return of Pink: Legally Blonde, Third-Wave 91 Feminism, and Having It All Lisa M. Rüll, A Soundtrack for Our Lives: Chick Flick Music 120 Deborah Barker, The Southern-Fried Chick Flick: Postfeminism 142 Goes to the Movies Margaret Tally, Something’s Gotta Give: Hollywood, Female Sexuality 182 and the ‘Older Bird’ Chick Flick Lisa Henderson, Simple Pleasures: Lesbian Community and Go Fish 201 Myra Mendible, Chica Flicks: Postfeminism, Class, and the Latina 244 American Dream Mallory Young, Chic Flicks: The New European Romance 271 Holly Hassel, ‘The Babe Scientist’ Phenomenon: The Illusion of Inclusion 292 in 1990s American Action Films Kate Waites, Babes in Boots: Hollywood’s Oxymoronic Warrior Woman 312 Karen Hollinger, Afterword: Once I Got Beyond the Name Chick Flick 337 Selected Filmography 355 Selected Bibliography 367 Contributors’ Notes 378