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Feminism and cultural studies

Author: Morag Shiach
Publisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series: Oxford readings in feminism.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Feminism and cultural studies.
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)648272294
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Morag Shiach
ISBN: 0198752350 9780198752356 0198752369 9780198752363
OCLC Number: 39856029
Description: xi, 597 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: PART I: CONSUMING AND COMMODITIES: Things to do with shopping centres / Meaghan Morris --
Consumerism reconsidered: buying and power / Mica Nava --
Shut up and dance: youth culture and changing modes of femininity / Angela McRobbie --
Cast upon their owen resources: the Girl's own paper and Harmsworth's trendsetters / Kristen Drotner --
Black Barbie and the deep play of difference / Ann Ducille --
The death of the profane / Patricia J. Williams --
PART II: WORKING: Women audiences and the workplace / Dorothy Hobson --
Typical girls? Young women form school to the job / Christine Griffin --
The tale of Samuel and Jemima: gender and working-class culture in early Nineteenth-Century England / Catherine Hall --
Becoming a woman in London in the 1920s and '30s / Sally Alexander --
High anxiety: catastrophe, scandal, age, and comedy: coutercultures / Patricia Mellencamp --
PART III: THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION: Women's cinema as counter cinema / Claire Johnston --
Desperately seeking difference / Jackie Stacey --
The Color Purple: Black women as cultural readers / Jacqueline Bobo --
Women and soap opera: a woman's space / Christine Geraghty --
Cosmetics and abjection: Cindy Sherman 1977-1987 / Laura Mulvey --
Family, education, photography / Judith Williamson --
Pedagogies of the feminine: feminist teaching and women's genres / Charlotte Brunsdon --
PART IV: FANTASTIES OF DESIRE: 'Returning to Manderley": romance fiction, female sexuality, and class / Alison Light --
Romance and the work of fantasy: struggles over feminine sexuality and subjectivity at century's end / Janice Radway --
Who's read Macho sluts? / Clare Whatling --
Disciplinary desires: the outside of queer feminist cultural studies / Elspeth Probyn --
'Who facies Pakis?': Pamella Bordes and the problems of exoticism in multiracial Britain / Gargi Bhattacharyya --
PART V: HOME? : 'As housewives we are worms': women, modernity, and the home question / Lesley Johnson --
Hygiene and modernization: housekeeping / Kristen Ross --
Feminist politics: what's home got to do with it? / Biddy Martin and Chandra Talpade Mohanty --
On not speaking Chinese: postmodern ethnicity and the politics of diaspora / Ien Ang --
From Hestia to home page: feminism and the concept of home in cyberspace / Susan Leigh Star.
Series Title: Oxford readings in feminism.
Responsibility: edited by Morag Shiach.
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