A postfeminist portrayal of women in chick literature

QR Code

A postfeminist portrayal of women in chick literature

The popularity of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary in 1996 gave rise to the chick lit genre and transformed the world of contemporary women’s fiction. This study examines the portrayal of women in chick lit, and the portrayal of Becky Bloomwood in Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Voon, Esther Suk Hsien
Format:	Final Year Project Report / IMRAD
Language:	English English
Published:	Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS 2009
Subjects:	PR English literature
Online Access:	http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6918/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6918/1/A%20POSTFEMINIST%20PORTRAYAL%20OF%20WOMEN%20IN%20CHICK%20LITERATURE%2024%20pgs.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6918/8/Esther%20ft.pdf

Similar Items

Diverse Construction of Identities in Contemporary Malaysian Literature: Challenges in Deconstructing and Teaching Literature
by: Collin, Jerome, et al.
Published: (2015)

Developing A Multiple Identity Literary Framework For Analyzing Constructions Of Identities In Malaysian Literature In English
by: Collin, Jerome, et al.
Published: (2015)

Teachers' preferred practices in teaching literature component in Kuching - Samarahan division secondary schools
by: Najah, binti Ramlan
Published: (2009)

Visiting Norwich, a UNESCO City of literature
by: Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
Published: (2019)

"And there I found myself more truly and more strange" : narratives of return in contemporary Malaysian and Singaporean literature / Briana Lenore Shay
by: Shay, Briana Lenore
Published: (2002)

Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, Volume 80 : Infinite Longing for Home : Desire and the Nation in Selected Writings of Ben Okri and K. S. Maniam
by: Lim, David C. L.
Published: (2005)

HXE 108 - Approaches to English Literature - November 2005
by: PPIK, Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan
Published: (2005)

Perceptions Towards The Introduction And Implementation Of The English Literature Component In Schools In Kelantan
by: Naginder, Kaur
Published: (2001)

The significance of moral values embedded in English literature component short stories on form five students / Zulaikha Farhana Izehari
by: Izehari, Zulaikha Farhana
Published: (2014)

Introducing Huzir Sulaiman: a Malaysian playwright
by: Quayum, Mohammad Abdul
Published: (2010)

The Islamization of English literary studies: a postcolonial approach
by: Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
Published: (2013)

Adibah Amin’s selected english prose writings a study of ‘Panopticism’
by: Ahmad Zaki, Farah Akmar, et al.
Published: (2017)

The Byronic hero as a cultural icon in the romantic period / Margaret Daniel
by: Daniel, Margaret
Published: (2005)

Voicing Caliban : a post-colonial reading of the Tempest / Mohala Santharamohana
by: Santharamohana, Mohala
Published: (1997)

Making a nation: The colonial university as contact zone in the novels of Adibah Amin
by: Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah
Published: (2017)

Hybridity in postcolonial discourse: a study of selected plays by Wole Soyinka / Tham, Wai Wah
by: Tham, Wai Wah
Published: (2002)

A study of the Orcs in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings / David Tneh Cheng Eng
by: Tneh, David Cheng Eng
Published: (2004)

A study of the Orcs in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings / David Tneh Cheng Eng
by: Tneh, C.E.
Published: (2004)

Treatment of child figures in selected novels of George Eliot / Susila Mary Pakiyathai a/p Appadurai
by: Appadurai, Susila Mary Pakiyathai
Published: (2004)

Dickens's dark corners : a study of the supernatural in selected works of Charles Dickens / Simone Elizabeth Reutens
by: Reutens, Simone Elizabeth
Published: (1995)

Patriarchy's inner demon : a study of the witch figure in selected Jacobean plays / Martini Abdul Aziz @ Asirvatham.
by: Aziz, Martini Abdul
Published: (2004)

A feminist revaluation of sympathy in three novels of George Eliot : Romola, Felix Holt and Middlemarch / Ku Nyun Chet
by: Ku, Nyun Chet
Published: (1996)

The "Terrible Moral in Dorian Gray" : a study of biblical redemption in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray / Gina M.V. Sathiaratnam
by: Sathiaratnam, Gina M.V.
Published: (2003)

The Malay in an emergent modernity : a reading of the fiction of Frank Swettenham and Hugh Clifford and Mahathir Mohamad's the Malay dilemma / Mohamad Rashidi Pakri.
by: Pakri, Mohamad Rashidi
Published: (2004)

Llyod Fernando (31 May 1926 - 28 February 2008)
by: Quayum, Mohammad Abdul
Published: (2009)

Shirley Geok-lin Lim (27 December 1944-)
by: Quayum, Mohammad Abdul
Published: (2009)

The painter: translation of Rabindranath Tagore's "Chitrakar"
by: Abdus Salam, Mohammad Abdul Quayum
Published: (2009)

The Morning After
by: Collin, Jerome
Published: (2009)

Postmodern elements in two novels: Mohja Kahf’s the girl in the tangerine scarf and Mohsin Hamid’s the reluctant fundamentalist
by: Abdullah, Suhaila
Published: (2017)

Representations of orientals in selected novels by Marmaduke Pickthall
by: Akhter, Bilkis, et al.
Published: (2017)

Viewing and reviewing the city from romantic to postmodern lenses: An analysis of 5 poems on Kuala Lumpur
by: Mohd Ramli, Aimillia
Published: (2017)

Politicizing power between the imperial female and the Malay other in Emily Innes’s The Chersonese With The Gilding Of
by: Ismail, Hanita Hanim, et al.
Published: (2016)

Theophilus Kwek, Giving Ground. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2016. 76 pp. ISBN978-981-09-8599-8
by: Ramlan, Madiha
Published: (2016)

Racial extinction and regeneration: representation of North Africa in the factual and fictional writings of Grant Allen
by: Mohd Ramli, Aimillia
Published: (2015)

Distinguishing Islam from cultural practices: Conversations with Qaisra Shahraz
by: Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
Published: (2016)

The Malays in the fiction of Lloyd Fernando and Che Husna Azhari
by: Ramlan, Wan Nur Madiha
Published: (2017)

Salman Rushdie's luka and the fire of life (2010)
by: Mohd Ramli, Aimillia, et al.
Published: (2018)

The bridge: writings from emerging writers from Pakistan and Malaysia
Published: (2019)

And Race is my name
by: Abdul Manaf, Nor Faridah
Published: (2019)

Travel poetry
by: Abdul Manaf, Nor Faridah
Published: (2019)