Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture seeks to recentre and challenge dominant narratives about postfeminism from the standpoint of often silenced and marginalized women of the Global South, specifically socio-economically privileged Nigerian women. Over many years, postfeminism has been framed as the exclusive preserve of White women and girls—with only a few exceptional Black women like singer Beyoncé Knowles and model Tyra Banks seen as qualified to embody postfeminism in Western narratives. Dosekun challenges the hegemonic Western narrative about feminism by insisting that postfeminism is “a culture that circulates both performatively and transnationally” (Dosekun, 2020:5). Drawing from the lived experiences of 18 middle-class women in Lagos, the author argues that postfeminist subjects are not just Westernized women, but also women of other parts of the world. In many ways, the book is an indictment of postfeminist ideals.
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