
Cultural Politics of Chick Lit
Chick lit is the marketing label attributed to a surge of books published in the wake of Helen Fielding''s Bridget Jones''s Diary (1996) and Candace Bushnell''s Sex and the City (1997). Branded by their pink or pastel-coloured book covers, chick-lit novels have been a highly successful and ubiquitous product of women''s popular culture since the late 1990s.
This study traces the evolution of chick...
Chick lit is the marketing label attributed to a surge of books published in the wake of Helen Fielding''s Bridget Jones''s Diary (1996) and Candace Bushnell''s Sex and the City (1997). Branded by their pink or pastel-coloured book covers, chick-lit novels have been a highly successful and ubiquitous product of women''s popular culture since the late 1990s.
This study traces the evolution of chick...
