1970s Mass Culture and Feminism

What is it about?

The essay demonstrates that 1970s U.S. feminisms were mediated through mass culture and, therefore, were transnational political projects from their inception. I draw upon theories of mass culture and look at film and TV from the 1970s to make the argument

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Why is it important?

The essay is important in countering the progressive logics of historical accounts of "second wave" feminism as primarily national or/and white and middle-class. I also problematize the idea that so-called second wave feminism presumed a foundational category--"women"--or that feminism in the late 20th and early 21st century can be defined through (modern) appeals to the nation-state