Negotiating at the Margins

by Fisher, Sue; Davis, Kathy

• ISBN13: 9780813519715
• ISBN10: 0813519713
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-09-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Power and the Female Subject	p. 3
Cultural Dopes and She-Devils: Cosmetic Surgery as Ideological Dilemma	p. 23
Deviancy, Dress, and Desire	p. 48
Clothing, Control, and Women's Agency: The Mitigation of Patriarchal Power	p. 66
Gender, Power, Resistance: Is Care the Remedy?	p. 87
Women's Agency, Social Control, and the Construction of "Rights" by Battered Women	p. 122
Telling Criminal Stories: The Femme Criminelle in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris	p. 145
"Trying to Put First Things First": Negotiating Subjectivities in a Workplace Organizing Campaign	p. 172
Skidding/Coping/Escaping: Constraint, Agency, and Gender in the Lives of Homeless "Skidders"	p. 205
"Not Just the Girl Singer": Women and Voice in Rock Bands	p. 235
Veiled Agents: Feminine Agency and Masquerade in The Battle of Algiers	p. 255
Choosing Choice: Images of Sexuality and "Choiceoisie" in Popular Culture	p. 278
"Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern Culture	p. 295
Notes on Contributors	p. 317
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