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  • June 4, 2012Sex and the Single Girl: Vintage Chick Lit Done Really Wrong

    Sex and the Single Girl: Vintage Chick Lit Done Really Wrong

    Originally published in 1962, Sex and the Single Girl enjoys prominent cultural status as being one of the first volumes to address women as economically and sexually independent individuals...

  • May 4, 2012“Studying” Chick Lit: A Capstone Reflection

    “Studying” Chick Lit: A Capstone Reflection

    One of my favorite contemporary novels is Bridget Jones’s Diary. I find the confessional format of the narrative highly imaginative, and I think the heroine is utterly hilarious, and there are..

  • April 20, 2012Refashioning Jane Austen

    Refashioning Jane Austen

    This volume, an anthology of media critique and analysis, situates the collective body of Jane Austen’s works within a contemporary and intertextual media framework. Per Editors Pucci and Thompson,..

  • April 15, 2012The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

    The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

    At the beginning of this semester, as I was presenting my idea for my final capstone project, one of my professors reacted with particular enthusiasm at the prospect of a chick lit/chick flick blog..

  • April 12, 2012Chick Flick Doesn’t Equal Anti-Feminist (Not Neccessarily, Anyway)

    Chick Flick Doesn’t Equal Anti-Feminist (Not Neccessarily, Anyway)

    In this volume Hilary Radner,  professor of film and media studies, University of Otago, analyzes contemporary popular films featuring (mostly) female protagonists, and displaying particular..

  • April 2, 2012Is Fifty Shades of Grey Chick Lit…Or Something else?

    Is Fifty Shades of Grey Chick Lit…Or Something else?

    I’ve recently started reading Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotic fiction novel currently in it’s sixth week in the number one slot on the New York Times Best Seller list. The novel, a tale..

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