Class in Culture / Edition 1

by Teresa L. Ebert, Mas'ud Zavarzadeh

Overview

"A gem of a book. Its topics are timely and provocative for cultural studies, sociology, English, literary theory, and education classes. The authors are brilliant thinkers and clear, penetrating writers." -Peter McLaren, UCLA, author of Capitalists and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire Class in Culture demonstrates the power of moving beyond cultural politics to a deeper class critique of contemporary life. Making a persuasive case for class as the material logic of culture, the book is written in a double register of short critiques of life practices-from food and education to race, stem-cell research, and abortion-as well as sustained critiques of such theoretical discourses as ideology, consumption, globalization, and 9/11. Surpassing the orthodoxies of cultural studies, Class in Culture makes surprising connections among seemingly unrelated cultural events and practices and offers a groundbreaking and complex understanding of the contemporary world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594513152
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/15/2007
Series:	Series in Critical Narrative
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Teresa L. Ebert, Mas’ud Zavarzadeh

Table of Contents

Part 1 All That Is Cultural Is Real—All That Is Real Is Cultural; Chapter 1 Getting Class Out of Culture; Chapter 2 Class Binaries and the Rise of Private Property; Part 2 Tracing Class; Chapter 3 Class Is; Chapter 4 Abu Ghraib and Class Erotics; Chapter 5 Class and 9/11; Chapter 6 Eating Class; Chapter 7 The Class Politics of “Values” and Stem-Cell Funding; Chapter 8 Abortion Is a Class Matter; Chapter 9 E-Education as a Class Technology; Chapter 10 Gender after Class; Chapter 11 The Class Logic of A Beautiful Mind; Part 3 Class Ecstasies of the Culture of Capital; Chapter 12 A “Potlatch of Signs”—Burning, Consuming, Wasting;

Editorial Reviews

A gem of a book. Its topics are timely and provocative for cultural studies, sociology, English, literary theory, and education classes. The authors are brilliant thinkers and clear, penetrating writers.”
—Peter McLaren, UCLA, author of Capitalists and Conquerors, A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire

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