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Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World: Toward an Engaged Cultural Criticism

by Frances E. Mascia-Lees , Patricia Sharpe
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780791447161
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 254
  • Original Price: USD 34.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 236 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Feminism & Feminist Theory

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

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.

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.

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