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Notes on Contributors
School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of Revaluing French Feminism: Critical Essays on Difference, Agency, and Culture (Indiana University Press 1991); Unruly Practices (University of Minnesota Press 1989); Justice Interruptus
Soundings Issue 15, Summer 2000
Difficult Alliances: Treading the Minefield of Identity and Solidarity Politics
weaknesses of the struggles we wage as individual organisations on the basis of our distinctive identities. Feminism is currently short on activism and seriously weakened by fragmentation. Most of us would be hard pressed
Soundings Issue 12, Summer 1999
Beyond the Wall: Changing Political Cultures of the Informal Sphere
societies. Yet within the framework of social policy, the dynamics of the informal sphere remain extraordinarily opaque. Feminism has succeeded in prising open many aspects of 'private' home life to social analysis, although the adjacent
Soundings Issue 11, Spring 1999
Editorial: A Third Way with Teeth
idea of a cultural politics, a renewal of Marxism as a flexible theoretical perspective, the turn to feminism, and the lasting emergence of a radical presence in many academic disciplines - for example as popular history
Soundings Issue 11, Spring 1999
Hidden Struggles: Black Women's Activism and Black Masculinity in the Shadow of the Windrush
3. Brixton Black Women's Group, 'Black Feminism', in H. Kanter, S. Lefanu, S. Shah, C. Shedding (eds) in Sweeping Statements: Writings from the Women
Soundings Issue 10, Autumn 1997
Livstycket: Working with Immigrant Women
forum in which men are encouraged to discuss Swedish life and culture, child-care, relationships, feminism, the changing concept of manhood and fatherhood, democracy within the family, etc - all subjects the women discuss at Livstycket
Soundings Issue 8, Spring 1998
The Uncanny Family
smaller or more local scales; the impetus to do so has come almost exclusively from two sources: feminism and ecology. Both of these have, 36
Soundings Issue 7, Autumn 1997
Bypassing Politics: The Contradictions of 'DiY Culture'
tendency on the left to see environmental activism as analogous to those other 'new social movements' feminism, black politics, gay and lesbian activism - and to try to co-opt it, somewhat opportunistically, to some sort
Soundings Issue 6, Summer 1997
'That's Entertainment': Generation X in the Time of New Labour
that their basic economic security had been guaranteed, as well as of the impact of movements like feminism on a wide range of young people. Issues connected with personal identity, lifestyle and morality
Soundings Issue 6, Summer 1997
Paradigm Lost: Youth and Pop in the 90s
Soundings also informed the hugely successful Spice Girls. Girl power is unlike the old style feminism - or at least the negative features associated with it - because it substitutes hedonism for austerity. Nevertheless
Soundings Issue 6, Summer 1997
The Cultural Politics of Dance Music
influential in British cultural studies at the time: Barthes and semiology, Hebdige and subculture, Kristeva and psychoanalytic feminism. 168
Soundings Issue 5, Spring 1997
Mediaworlds: Introduction
Wallace and Gromit in a Manhattan taxi? Or to turn this around: old debates - Angela McRobbie discusses feminism for young women - can be revived and transformed in the most unlikely locales of an unashamedly commercial
Soundings Issue 5, Spring 1997
Notes on Contributors
Colluding in the Backlash? Feminism and the Construction of 'Orthodoxy? Rosalind Gill
Soundings Issue 5, Spring 1997
Heroes For Our Times : Tommy Cooper
Santner, I would propose that the mourning-tasks undertaken by the film respond to the demands of feminism and of postmodernism. The world of science, learning and absolute knowledge is challenged, as is the citadel
Soundings Issue 3, Summer 1996
A Queer Way of Re-defining Masculinity
steely masculine personality, some end up less rugged. It's undeniable that, under the impact of feminism, more and more straight males are 80
Soundings Issue 3, Summer 1996
One Step Nearer Genuine Citizenship: Reflections on the Commission of Social Justice Report
been conceived through a uni-focal male lens. However, there is also a strand of feminism which is very critical of what it sees as an endorsement of 'flexible' working practices which have disadvantaged women
Soundings Issue 2, Spring 1996
The Idea of a Sexual Community
place. Racial and ethnic minorities historically challenged racist structures by affirming their racialised identities ('black is beautiful'). Feminism has historically affirmed the rights of women by asserting the positive qualities of femininity. Lesbians and gays
Soundings Issue 2, Spring 1996
And Not A Shot Fired
disciplines. The Irigaray Reader is a collection of her most important papers to date, ranging across feminism, philosophy, psychoanalysis and linguistics, some of which appear for the first time in English. October 1991, 252 pages
Marxism Today December 1991
Sting In The Tale
bottom line is that I don't write about what MT considers to be the main course/cause. Feminism and cultural politics were always regarded as the pudding. Nice if you can get it, but something
Marxism Today December 1991
Common Threads
Michele Roberts Making A Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism, ed. Gayle Greene and Coppelia Kahn (Routledge, 1985). Feminism And Poetry, Ian Montefiore (Pandora, 1987). On Gender And Writing, ed. Micheline Wandor (Pandora, 1983). White Woman Speaks
Marxism Today October 1991
Century Of Destruction
that liberalism, indecision, being open and expiatory attitude towards able to see both sides of the question, feminism, gay rights, theory, literature have seemed acts of cowardice. It has and popular culture. The people
Marxism Today October 1991
Soft Vengeance
touch with my body. I'm sure I'd been prepared, to some extent, by contact with feminism. It had opened the way, but it was the experience which really did it. There
Marxism Today October 1991
Material Girl
sussed, sassy, streetwise - a pragmatic kind of intelligence that is continually devalued by those who prefer their feminism to remain rather abstract. Her acute selfconsciousness about image.our collective use of star images, and indeed
Marxism Today July 1991
The Great Day - book review
this sounds many miles away from the reality of modern living-together arrangements and contemporary feminism, then the point Charsley is trying to make is that such values exist alongside and are even complementary with
Marxism Today June 1991
Teeny Bopping
Teeny Bopping Angela McRobbie s new book Feminism And Youth Culture: From Jackie To Just Seventeen (Macmillan, hbk £35, pbk £9.99) has an extraordinarily striking
Marxism Today March 1991