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9. Dale Spender wrote in a subtitle to the 1994 book Weddings & Wives that "many women want to have weddings: few of them want to be wives." How true do you think this is of young women now, in the 21st Century? To what extent can this be related to "third wave" or "post" feminism? Suggested Reading (see lecture script on the topic for more references, or find your own. Academic material can be supplemented by newspaper and internet material. Continued over the page): On Weddings: Bell, Vikki. “Taking Her Hand: Becoming, Time and the Cultural Politics of the White Wedding”. Cultural Values, 1998, 2, 4, Oct: 463-484 Boden, Sharon. “'Superbrides': Wedding Consumer Culture and the Construction of Bridal Identity”. Sociological Research Online, 2001, 6, 1, May Geller, Jaclyn Here comes the bride: women, weddings, and the marriage mystique New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, c2001. HQ745.G45/2001 Harrison, Lyn. “ 'It's a Nice Day for a White Wedding': The Debutante Ball and Constructions of Femininity”. Feminism & Psychology, 1997, 7, 4, Nov: 495-516. Kingston, Anne, The Meaning of Wife, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005.- on order MQ library - See REVIEW BY KATE SAUNDERS in The Sunday Times, February 27, 2005 (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1496529,00.html) Spender, Dale, ed. Weddings & Wives: Australian women writers on modern marriage. Penguin Books, 1994. Valentine, Gill; Butler, Ruth. “The Alternative Fairy Story: Diana and the Sexual Dissidents”. Journal of Gender Studies, 1999, 8, 3, Nov: 295-302 On Third Wave/Post Feminism Arneil, Barbara. " Third Wave Feminism (s): the View at, of and from the Border(s)" in Politics and feminism: an introduction. Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 1999. HQ1236 .A76/1999 Bail, Kathy, ed. DIY Feminism, Allen & Unwin, 1996. HQ1822 .D58 Barrett, Michèle. "Post-feminism" in Understanding contemporary society: theories of the present, ed. Gary Browning, Abigail Halcli and Frank Webster. London; Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage Publications, 2000. H61 .U638 Brooks, Ann. Postfeminisms: feminism, cultural theory, and cultural forms. London; New York, Routledge, 1997. RESERVE: HQ1190 .B764/1997 Coppock, Vicki Deena Haydon, and Ingrid Richter. The illusions of "post-feminism": new women, old myths. London, Bristol, PA : Taylor & Francis, 1995. HQ1593 .C66/1995 Denfeld, Rene. The New Victorians: A Young Woman’s Challenge to the Old Feminist Order, Allen & Unwin, 1995. HQ1190.5.U6 .D46/1995 Ebert, Teresa L. Ludic feminism and after postmodernism, desire, and labor in late capitalism. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, c1996. HQ1190 .E24/1996 Heywood, Leslie and Jennifer Drake, eds. Third wave agenda: being feminist, doing feminism. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1997. HQ1421 .T455/1997 Powers, Ann. Weird like us: my bohemian America. New York, Simon & Schuster, c2000. E169.O4 .P69/2000 Prokhovnik, Raia. "The third wave: the future of feminism" in Rational woman: a feminist critique of dichotomy. London, Routledge, 1999. B812 .P77/1999 Roiphe, Katie. The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism, Hamish Hamilton, 1993. LC197 .R65

Scutt, Jocelynne A., ed. Growing up feminist: the new generation of Australian women; Growing up feminist too: raising women, raising consciousness. Melbourne, Artemis Publishing, 1995. HQ1822 .G7/1995 Sommers, Christine Hoff. Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women, Touchstone, 1994. HQ1154 .S613/1994 Trioli, Virginia. Generation f: Sex, Power and the Young Feminist, Minerva, 1996. HQ1822 .T75