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...