Sadržaj:
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young
  • The Hatching of a Genre: Origins and Influences
  • "Tome of the Unknown Chick: A Short History of Chick-Lit and the Perversion of a Genre" / Cris Mazza
  • "Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners" / Stephanie Harzewski
  • "Mothers of Chick Lit?: Women Writers, Readers, and Literary History" / Juliette Wells
  • "Narrative and Cinematic Doubleness: Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary" / Suzanne Ferriss
  • Free Range: Varieties and Variations
  • "'Sistahs Are Doin' It for Themselves': Chick Lit in Black and White" / Lisa A. Guerrero
  • "Long-Suffering Professional Females: The Case of Nanny-Lit" / Elizabeth Hale
  • "You Are Not Alone: The Personal, the Political, and the 'New' Mommy Lit" / Heather Hewett
  • "Chick Lit Jr.: More Than Just Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens" / Joanna Webb Johnson
  • "Ya Yas, Grits and Sweet Potato Queens: Contemporary Southern Belles and the Prescriptions That Guide Them" / Elizabeth B. Boyd
  • "Bridget Jones and Hungarian Chick Lit" / Nóra Séllei
  • Sex and the Single Chick: Feminism and Postfeminism, Sexuality and Self-Fashioning
  • "About a Girl: Female Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary 'Chick' Culture" / A. Rochelle Mabry
  • "No Satisfaction: Sex and the City, Run Catch Kiss, and the Conflict of Desires in Chick Lit's New Heroines" / Anna Kiernan
  • "Fashionably Indebted: Fashion, Romance, and Conspicuous Consumption in Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic Trilogy" / Jessica Lyn Van Slooten
  • "Super-Sizing Bridget Jones: What's Really Eating the Women in Chick Lit" / Alison Umminger
  • Afterword / Shari Benstock
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors' Notes