Postfeminizm jako perspektywa rozważań nad kulturą popularną – propozycja metody badań literackiej fantastyki dla młodych dorosłych

The article attempts to problematize the phenomenon of postfeminism in popular culture texts and identify significant research problems related to novels for young adults in this context. Since fantasy and science fiction are prevalent choices of young Poles, the author assumes that these genres play an important role in transmitting cultural patterns, including gender ones. Hence she derives the need to study the fantastic constructions of girls and women and identify the feminist and postfeminist components of the story in which these constructions occur. In the first part, she distinguishes between Third-Wave feminism and postfeminism. She cites important diagnoses and conclusions developed in research on postfeminism in the last two decades. In the second, she introduces the observations and concepts regarding the postfeminist dimension of popular culture and presents proposals for using them in research on fantastic literature for young audiences, considering native and translated literature published in Poland.