Taking a stand in a postfeminist world : toward an engaged cultural criticism

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Taking a stand in a postfeminist world : toward an engaged cultural criticism

Frances E. Mascia-Lees and Patricia Sharpe

State University of New York Press, c2000

  • alk. paper
  • pbk. : alk. paper

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

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Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World offers an engaged cultural criticism in a postfeminist context. At the end of the twentieth century, an increasingly globalized world has given rise to a cultural complexity characterized by a rapid increase in competing discourses, fragmented subjectivities, and irreconcilable claims over cultural representation and who has the right to speak for, or about, "others." While feminism has traditionally been a potent site for debates over questions that have arisen out of this context, recently, it has become so splintered and suspect that its insights are often dismissed as predictable, seriously reducing its capacity to offer powerful cultural criticism. In this postfeminist context, the authors argue for a cultural criticism that is strategic, not programmatic, and that preserves the multiple commitments, ideas, and positions required of interactions and identifications across lines of cultural, racial, and gender difference. Selecting sites where such interactions are highlighted and under current scrutiny—film, consumer culture, tourism, anthropology, and the academy—the authors theorize and demonstrate the struggles and maneuvers required to "take a stand" on a wide range of issues of significance to the contemporary cultural moment.

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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

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