Pop & Postfeminism: Female Dandyism in Popular Music

In Pop & Postfeminism, Nathalie Weidhase conceptualises the female dandy as a figure that simultaneously embodies and disrupts postfeminist notions of femininity, including maintaining a physique conforming to contemporary beauty standards, constant self—surveillance and self—improvement, and the naturalisation of gender difference and heterosexuality.

Weidhase examines how music videos function as spaces in popular culture where the politics of the feminine can be articulated. These spaces...