Mascia-Lees / Sharpe Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World

Toward an Engaged Cultural Criticism
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-9187-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mascia-Lees, Frances E.

Sharpe, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. On Shaky Ground: Shifting Terrain and the Predicaments of Postfeminism
Part I: Shifting Stance: Strategic (Re)Positioning
2. The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective
3. The Anthropological Unconscious
Part II: Taking a Seat at the Movies: Assessing Theories of Representation and Identification
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 Identification with the Child Within
7. Piano Lessons: Jane Campion as (Counter)Ethnographer Part III: On Display: Style and (Ad)dress in Consumer Culture
8. The Female Body in Postmodern Consumer Culture: Subjection and Agency at the Mall
9. Arts and Crafts Mass Marketed
Part IV: Taking a Stand: Subjects and (Dis)courses in the Academy
10. Body as Text: Young Women's Negotiations of Subjectivity
11. Interpreting Charges of Sexual Harassment: Competing Discourses and Claims
Conclusion
12. Locked In, Locked Out, or Locked Up?
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Frances E. Mascia-Lees teaches anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College, and is the author of Toward a Model of Women's Status and coauthor of Gender and Anthropology. Patricia Sharpe is Dean of Academic Affairs at Simon's Rock College of Bard, and along with Frances E. Mascia-Lees, coedited Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text, also published by SUNY Press.