Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure

by Hilary Radner

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415905404
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/1994
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hilary Radner is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Speaking Out; Chapter 2 The “New Woman” and Her “Self”; Chapter 3 “A Dream of Thee”; Chapter 4 Private Entertainments; Chapter 5 Speaking the Body; Conclusion;