361 results for feminism
Beyond the wall
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 soundings issue 11 Spring 1999
Hidden struggles
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 soundings issue 10 Autumn 1998
Livstycket Working with immigrant women in a Stockholm suburb
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 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 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 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 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 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 soundings issue 5 Spring 1997
Mediaworlds
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 soundings issue 5 Spring 1997
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 soundings issue 3 Summer 1996
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 soundings issue 3 Summer 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 soundings issue 2 Spring 1996
One step nearer to 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 soundings issue 2 Spring 1996
I Want The Black One: Is There A Place For Afro-American Culture In Commodity Culture?
exploitation of people of color in this society'25 both in relation to liberal politics and liberal feminism. I would add that white supremacy is the only way to begin
New Formations Number 10 Spring 1990
A Symptomology Of An Authoritarian Discourse: The Parliamentary Debates On The Prohibition Of The Promotion Of Homosexuality
construction of the equivalence, Labour = 'excessive' local government = high rates = 'loony Left' = permissiveness = radical blackness, gayness, feminism = erosion of the entire social order, was central to the 1987 campaign.2 In the new session
New Formations Number 10 Spring 1990
The Technophilic Body: On Technicity In William Gibson'S Cyborg Culture
perspective on a cyborg oppositional culture see Donna Haraway, 'A manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s', Socialist Review, 15, 2 (1985), 65-107. 3 All further references to Gibson
New Formations Number 8 Summer 1989
Cinema/Americanism/The Robot
clear: sexuality-out-of-control is the main threat to the rationality of technology. For Gramsci, too, feminism is identified with the True Maria rather than the False ('unhealthy "feministic" deviations in the worst sense
New Formations Number 8 Summer 1989
Placing Television
Meyrowitz writes) to a restructuring of communication that empowers publics and disempowers authority. Indeed the rise of feminism, the civil rights movement, black power, and other movements of the 1960s is traceable to the impact
New Formations Number 4 Spring 1988
Vicarious Excitements: London: A Pilgrimage By Gustave Dore And Blanchard Jerrold, 1872
Clark, op. cit. 32 For fuller elaboration of both these points see G. Pollock, Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art (London: Methuen, 1988). 33 Stedman Jones, op. cit., 270. 34 L. Davidoff
New Formations Number 4 Spring 1988
Festivals Of The Oppressed
industrial upsurge of 1972-4 was to delay, or at least to mask, the growth of feminism in Britain - but by 1975, the women's movement was able to mount and sustain a highly successful
New Formations Number 3 Winter 1987
The Prison-House Of Criticism
that the formation of new types of cultural association in connection with the development of post-war feminism has created an institutional space for criticism which has broken free from the gendered exclusivity of earlier
New Formations Number 2 Summer 1987
Englishness And The Paradox Of Modernity
know in the least what is intended by the Clause'; Sheila Jeffreys, The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and sexuality, 1880-1930 (London: Pandora, 1986), 115. 7 Robert Huttenback, 'No strangers within the gates. Attitudes
New Formations Number 1 Spring 1987
'Enough About You, Let'S Talk About Me' Recent Autobiographical Writing
There is something of a vogue for autobiographical writing within the left and feminism at present. At first glance, this might seem paradoxical. How can autobiography's emphasis on the individual
New Formations Number 1 Spring 1987
GLC R.I.P: Cultural Policies in London 1981-1986
which they are extremely uncertain and ashamed . . . it really is quite an effort to get policies on feminism through the [Labour] group.' 18 And, in an assessment of its cultural policies for women
New Formations Number 1 Spring 1987
Social Class and the Psyche
1. D. Reay, Class Acts: Educational Involvement and Psycho-Sociological Class Processes, Feminism and Psychology, 9 (1) 1999. 140
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