Shopping Around
Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Popular Culture, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
| Author: | Hilary Radner | ISBN: | 9781136039423 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | November 12, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Hilary Radner |
| ISBN: | 9781136039423 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | November 12, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
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, providing a unique introduction to postmodern feminist and cultural theory.
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, providing a unique introduction to postmodern feminist and cultural theory.
