Taking a stand in a postfeminist world : toward an engaged cultural criticism / Frances E. Mascia-Lees and Patricia Sharpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mascia-Lees, Frances E., 1953-

Contributor:

Sharpe, Patricia, 1943-

Series:

SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought Spiritual Titanism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Feminist criticism.

Feminist anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought

SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought : Spiritual Titanism : Indian, Chinese, and Western Perspectives

Spiritual Titanism : Indian, Chinese, and Western Perspectives {SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought}

Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World: Toward an Engaged Cultural Criticism

Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ranging across contemporary culture from the academy to shopping malls, this book offers engaged cultural criticism in a postfeminist context.

Contents:

Intro

Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World: Toward an EngagedCultural Criticism

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. On Shaky Ground: Shifting Terrain andthe Predicaments of Postfeminism

2 The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology:Cautions from a Feminist Perspective

3. The AnthropologicalUnconscious

4. An Oblique Look:Theorizing the "Other" as Spectator

5. Courting The Nineteenth Century: Object, Image, and Fetishistic Desire

6. Self-Help Hollywood Style: Masculinity, Masochism, and Identificationwith the Child Within

7. Piano Lessons: Jane Campion as (Counter)Ethnographer

8. The Female Body in Postmodern Consumer Culture: Subjection and Agency at the Mall

9. Arts and Crafts Mass Marketed

10. Body as Text: Young Women's Negotiations of Subjectivity

11. Interpreting Charges of Sexual Harassment: Competing Discourses and Claims

12. Locked in, Locked out,or Locked up?

Notes

References

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-238) and index.

ISBN:

9780585418346

0791491870

0585418349

9780791492826

0791492826

OCLC:

794701358