ISBN:
9780415905398
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (232 p)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Shopping Around : Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Shopping Around investigates the issues of contemporary popular narrative, feminine pleasure, and consumer culture, viewing the permutations of the feminine subject as a textual construction evolved through everyday life. A wide spectrum of texts are examined, exposing the fact that women "read" within a complex and conflicted cultural arena characterized by a significant intertextuality that multiply defines "femininity." Shopping Around raises these issues in the context of everyday cultural practices such as applying make-up, reading magazines, watching television, and working-out, providin
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; shopping around: feminine culture and the pursuit of pleasure; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; 1 SPEAKING OUT: SHREWISH BEHAVIOR; The "New Woman" Meets Shakespeare: on TV; The Romance and the Shrew; 2 THE "NEW WOMAN" AND HER "SELF"; Self-esteem, Self-worth, and Ego-strength; The Covergirl's Cover Story; 3 "A DREAM OF THEE"; The Erotic Gag: Reading the Category Romance; Alibis and Cover Stories: Pornography, History, Race, and the Category Romance; 4 PRIVATE ENTERTAINMENTS; "Out of Category": The Middlebrow Novel; Girl Friends: Waiting to Exhale
Description / Table of Contents:
"The Subject is You": Reading Magazines5 SPEAKING THE BODY: JANE FONDA'S WORKOUT BOOK; CONCLUSION: "FEMININITY: DO YOU BUY IT?"; A Continuing Conversation; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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