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This indispensible collection brings together feminist theory and cultural studies, looking at issues such as pop culture and the media, science and technology, and Thatcherism and the Enterprise Culture.
List of contents
Part One: Introduction 1. Feminism and Cultural Studies: Pasts, Presents, Futures 2. Feminism, Marxism and Thatcherism Part Two: Representation and Identity 1. Melodrama's Gendered Audience Angela Partington 2. Open or Closed: Popular Magazines and Dominant Culture Helen Pleasance 3. Having it All: Feminism and the Pleasures of the Popular Yvonne Tasker 4. Reading the Self: Autobiography, Gender and the Institution of the Literary Celia Lury 5. Is 'Doing Nothing' Just Boys' Play?: Integrating Feminist and Cultural Studies Perspectives on Working Class Young Men's Masculinity Joyce E Canaan Part Three: Science and Technology 6. Science and Technology: Questions for Cultural Studies and Feminism Maureen McNeil and Sarah Franklin 7. In the Wake of the Alton Bill: Science, Technology and Reproductive Politics The Science and Technology Subgroup Section One: Putting the Alton Bill in Context Maureen McNeil Section Two: Abortion Acts: 1803-1967 Wendy Fyfe Section Three: Adversarial Politics: The Legal Construction of Abortion Deborah Lynn Steinberg Section Four: Fetal Fascinations: New Dimensions to the Medical-Scientific Construction of Fetal Personhood Sarah Franklin Section Five: The Alton Bill and the Media's 'Consensual' Position Tess Randles Conclusion: Feminism and Abortion: Pasts, Presents and Futures The Science and Technology Subgroup Part Four: Thatcherism and the Enterprise Culture 8. Making and Not Making the Difference: The Gender Politics of Thatcherism Maureen McNeil 9. Enterprising Women: Images of Success Janet Newman 10. Enterprise Fictions: Women of Substance Estella Tincknell 11. Redefining Cultural Identities Evelyn Reid 12. Promoting Normality: Section 28 and the Regulation of Sexuality Jackie Stacey Bibliography Notes on contributors Publications from the Department of Cultural Studies at Birmingham Index
