Cris Mazza, co-editor of Chick Lit:...

Cris Mazza, co-editor of Chick Lit: Postfeminist Fiction and Chick Lit 2: No Chick Vics, says in the Introduction to the first of these works that she intended the label "postfeminist" almost as a sally an icebreaker. Going on to provide any descriptive criteria for the time initially she defines postfeminist fiction by means of what it is not. Among these "nots" are stories in which the writer or protagonist laments: "my lover left me and I am in the same manner sad," "what's happened to me is deadly serious," or "society has given me an eating disorder/poor