| Description |
viii, 230 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Cultural studies in practice |
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Cultural studies in practice.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Telling stories: feminism and cultural studies -- 2. Thinking back through our mothers: writing as a woman and the politics of culture. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and the rights of woman. Women and economics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): writing as women write. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986): the personal and the philosophical -- 3. The 1970s: 'A new consciousness among women'. USA: from activism to theory. USA: feminism in the academy. 'Mass communication'. Britain: theory and activism. The Birmingham CCCS. Women take issue -- 4. 'Unsettled relations': psychoanalysis, feminism and cultural studies. Juliet Mitchell: psychoanalysis and feminism. Elizabeth Wilson: questioning the 'new orthodoxy'. Jacqueline Rose: a subjectivity at odds with itself. Visual pleasures? Recognizing ourselves. In dreams ... Structuring desire. Telling a different story -- 5. Ethnographic turns. Feminist 'ethnography'. Feminist audience research. Discourse and everyday life. Gendered play. Rethinking class and gender. The politics of interpretation -- 6. Identity shopping: women and consumer culture. Women and consumption. Style as resistance. Enemies of glamour. Consumer culture and modernity. The rise of shopping. The rational consumer. Fashioning the subject. Fans and stars -- 7. Technologies of the body. (Re)Discovering the body. The body in representation. The disciplined body. Rebellious bodies. Sexing Foucault. Cyborg bodies. Embodied knowledge -- 8. Conclusion: Narratives of displacement. The moving subject. Gender and genre. Feminism's exclusions. Heroes and heroines |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Culture -- Study and teaching.
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Feminist theory.
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| LC no. |
2001273494 |
| ISBN |
0340718978 |
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0340718986 (paperback) |
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