Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies Stories of Unsettled Relations

by Thornham, Sue

• ISBN13: 9780340718971
• ISBN10: 0340718978
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-31
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

The interaction of feminism with cultural studies has revolutionised both fields. Here, Sue Thornham traces the complex relationship between the two, examining the ways in which feminism has affected the key theoretical developments for the last thirty years and has influenced - and contested - the direction of cultural studies research. It examines the engagement of feminist theory with psychoanalysis and structuralism, with ethnographic research, with theories of cultural consumption, and with concepts of technology, the body and modernity. It offers an invaluable survey and assessment of the rich and varied literature around each of these topics, providing students with an admirable overview of the field and a firm basis for developed study within both areas.

Table of Contents

General Editors' Preface	ix
Introduction Telling stories: feminism and cultural studies	1	(15)
Other stories	5	(11)
Thinking back through our mothers: writing as a woman and the politics of culture	16	(28)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and the rights of woman	17	(3)
Women and economics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)	20	(7)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): writing as women write	27	(6)
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986): the personal and the philosophical	33	(11)
The 1970s: `A new consciousness among women'	44	(27)
USA: from activism to theory	47	(6)
USA: feminism in the academy	53	(1)
`Mass communication'	54	(2)
Britain: theory and activism	56	(5)
The Birmingham CCCS	61	(4)
Women take issue	65	(6)
`Unsettled relations': psychoanalysis, feminism and cultural studies	71	(27)
psychoanalysis and feminism	74	(3)
Juliet Mitchell
questioning the `new orthodoxy'	77	(2)
Elizabeth Wilson
a subjectivity at odds with itself	79	(3)
Jacqueline Rose
Visual pleasures?	82	(3)
Recognizing ourselves	85	(3)
In dreams...	88	(2)
Structuring desire	90	(4)
Telling a different story	94	(4)
Ethnographic turns	98	(28)
Feminist `ethnography'	101	(3)
Feminist audience research	104	(8)
Discourse and everyday life	112	(3)
Gendered play	115	(4)
Rethinking class and gender	119	(3)
The politics of interpretation	122	(4)
Identity shopping: women and consumer culture	126	(29)
Women and consumption	126	(3)
Style as resistance	129	(4)
Enemies of glamour	133	(3)
Consumer culture and modernity	136	(2)
The rise of shopping	138	(2)
The rational consumer	140	(4)
Fashioning the subject	144	(3)
Fans and stars	147	(8)
Technologies of the body	155	(29)
(Re) Discovering the body	159	(5)
The body in representation	164	(2)
The disciplined body	166	(6)
Rebellious bodies	172	(2)
Sexing Foucault	174	(2)
Cyborg bodies	176	(5)
Embodied knowledge	181	(3)
Conclusion: Narratives of displacement	184	(15)
The moving subject	186	(2)
Gender and genre	188	(4)
Feminism's exclusions	192	(3)
Heroes and heroines	195	(4)
Bibliography	199	(20)
Subject index	219	(8)
Name index	227