OXFORD READINGS IN FEMINISM

Feminism and Cultural

Edited by Morag Shiach

OXFORD
VNIVERSITY PRESS

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Notes on Contributors Introduction viii 1

Part I. Consuming and Commodities

1. Things To Do With Shopping Centres
MEAGHAN MORRIS

11 45

2. Consumerism Reconsidered: Buying and Power

MICA NAVA

3. Shut Up and Dance: Youth Culture and Changing Modes of Femininity ANGELA MCROBBIE 4. Cast Upon Their O w n Resources: The Girl's Own Paper and Harmsworth's Trendsetters KIRSTEN DROTNER 5. Black Barbie and the Deep Play of Difference
ANN DUCILLE

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6. The Death of the Profane

PATRICIA J.WILLIAMS

Part II. Working

7. Women Audiences and the Workplace
DOROTHY HOBSON

143

8. Typical Girls? Young Women from School to the Job Market: Looking Forward CHRISTINE GRIFFIN 9. The Tale of Samuel and Jemima: Gender and Working-Class Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century England
CATHERINE HALL

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Becoming a W o m a n in London in the 1920s and '30s

SALLY ALEXANDER

High Anxiety: Catastrophe, Scandal, Age, and Comedy: Countercultures

PATRICIA MELLENCAMP

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Part III. The Age of Mechanical Reproduction 12. Women's Cinema as Counter Cinema
CLAIRE JOHNSTON

13. Desperately Seeking Difference

JACKIE STACEY

14. The Color Purple: Black Women as Cultural Readers

JACQUELINE BOBO

15. Women and Soap Opera: A Woman's Space

CHRISTINE GERAGHTY

16. Cosmetics and Abjection: Cindy Sherman 1977-1987

LAURA MULVEY

17. Family, Education, Photography

JUDITH WILLIAMSON

18. Pedagogies of the Feminine: Feminist Teaching and Women's Genres

CHARLOTTE BRUNSDON

Part IV. Fantasies of Desire 19. 'Returning to Manderley': Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality, and Class
ALISON LIGHT

20. Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End
JANICE RADWAY

21. Who's Read Macho Sluts?

CLARE WHATLING

22. Disciplinary Desires: The Outside of Queer Feminist Cultural Studies

ELSPETH PROBYN

23. 'Who Fancies Pakis?': Pamella Bordes and the Problems of Exoticism in Multiracial Britain'
GARGI BHATTACHARYYA

PartV. Home? 24. 'As Housewives we Are Worms': Women, Modernity, and the Home Question
LESLEY JOHNSON

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25. Hygiene and Modernization: Housekeeping

KRISTIN ROSS

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26. Feminist Politics: What's H o m e Got to Do with It?

BIDDY MARTIN AND CHANDRA TALPADE MOHANTY

27. On Not Speaking Chinese: Postmodern Ethnicity and the Politics of Diaspora
IENANG

540

28. From Hestia to H o m e Page: Feminism and the Concept of Home in Cyberspace
SUSAN LEIGH STAR

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Further Reading Index

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