I am looking for a concise (5-6 sentence) definition/description of
the "postfeminist era." Definition/description should include dates
(ie, 1995 to present) and main characteristics (ie, return to family
values). Definition/description should be based on a credible source
or sources (ie, As defined by Camille Paglia, the postfeminist era...;
or, As described by Newsweek, the postfeminist era...). Finally, the
trend whereby career women are deciding to become stay-at-home moms
should be identified within the context of the postfeminist era and
sourced (ie, According to Newsweek, a main characteristic of the
postfeminist era is the choice many career women are making to put
their career on hold once they have children).

Greetings Alifree,
I would define the Post-Feminist Era as a time after feminism has
reached its peak, figuratively it “has done its worst”, and has now
toned down, and people are sitting back to see what has happened.
Awareness is more or less ambiguous about discrimination and
culturally insinuated demeaning of women, but still the glass ceiling
has not been broken, though women may have been raised closer to it.
The positive role of women in world events and things is being more
universally recognized, in examples such as the participation of women
in the 1991 and 2003 Gulf Wars, the 1997 deaths of Princess Di and
Mother Teresa, spotlights on women performing well and being common in
formerly “men’s only” occupations, movie and TV icons such as Buffy
the Vampire Slayer and Lara Croft of Tomb Raider, and Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo’s ascent as the second female president of the
Philippines. The early 90’s also saw a proliferation of movements,
such as Evangelical Christianity in the early 1990’s, that softened
interest in fierce Feminism and encouraged women to see their
traditional roles in the family in a more positive light. This is also
a time of somewhat different moral behavior, for example when a
daughter having been impregnated by a boyfriend would not always
elicit a ranting and raving father and sobbing mother, since more
parents acknowledge the independence of their female children today
and do not treat them as “my little girls”. Also, the dainty,
innocent-sweet picture of a white lace-clad virgin has been relegated
as the stuff of myth, since women have asserted that they are much
more effective than that.

I hope this was a satisfactory 6-sentence piece.
The sources from where I got ideas are listed below, though I admit I
did not follow them all.

Sources:
Post Feminist Text Analysis
http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/teaching/slm/mills/postfem.html

Feminist Philosophy in an Era of Post-Feminism. By Sidonia Blättler
http://www.querelles-net.de/english/2001-5/text16.htm
English Translation using Google:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.querelles-net.de/english/2001-5/text16.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpost%2Bfeminist%2Bera%26num%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8

History 390 The American Feminist Movement
http://www.southalabama.edu/history/faculty/brazy/390.html

ALA FTF Feminist Librarianship Papers
http://www.libr.org/FTF/femthink.htm

The Center For The Study of The Women in Judaism-New Books
http://www.biu.ac.il/js/jwmn/Bookshelf.htm

AAUW In the News
http://www.aauw.org/about/newsroom/aauwinthenews.cfm

AlterNet: Manufacturing Postfeminism
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13118

Collected opinions on Postfeminism
http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr3/forum/pofem.htm


Some Extras:
Post Feminist Era poem
http://www.vanewomen.co.uk/postcards/wendy.html


Of course there are many who believe post-feminism is not real at all.
They say that despite feminism’s aggressive efforts, society has
actually just shrugged them off and the same problems are still there,
men just covered up things to make it look like the problems are
solved.

I’m wondering if this answer would elicit a lot of reactions in the
Comment section, but they are most welcome.

Google Search strings used:
post feminist era
post-feminist time
post feminism

I hope this has been a most helpful answer. If you have any problem
with it, do please post a Request for Clarification and I shall
respond. Thank you.

The resource links provided were more helpful than the answer itself.
The answer was longer than the concise description requested, vague,
and seemed to be filled as much with the researcher's opinion as
facts. The linked sources, though, provide the answer I was looking
for.