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Afterword: Girls: Notes on Authenticity, Ambivalence and Imperfection

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This chapter offers an afterword to the collection, discussing key themes and contributions. Three broad discussions are the focus: the representation of Lena Dunham’s body, sex in Girls, and the value of the notion of postfeminism for analysing Girls in particular and popular cultural texts more generally. The chapter pays particular attention to questions of vulnerability and imperfection, highlighting the need for scholarship that takes seriously the affective and psychic life of postfeminism.

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I am grateful to Shani Orgad and Roisin Ryan Flood for their helpful comments on this piece.

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    Rosalind Gill

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Gill, R. (2017). Afterword: Girls: Notes on Authenticity, Ambivalence and Imperfection. In: Nash, M., Whelehan, I. (eds) Reading Lena Dunham’s Girls. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52971-4_16

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