The Contradictions of Culture
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The Contradictions of Culture

Cities, Culture, Women

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Contradictions of Culture

Cities, Culture, Women

About this book

In this book, one of the most accomplished and thoughtful cultural commentators of the day, considers the contradictory nature of cultural relations. Elizabeth Wilson explores these themes through an examination of fashion, feminism, consumer culture, representation and postmodernism. Debates within feminism on the nature and effects of pornography are used to illustrate a particular kind of cultural contradiction. Wilson recognizes that postmodernism permitted the reappropriation of subjects that were not previously considered worthy of attention, or opposed to the idea of emancipation, chief among these was fashion. She shows that the association of an interest in this culturally significant subject with a revisionist project raises doubts about the coherence of postmodernism itself.

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National 
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Chapter 1 - Introduction
  5. Part I
  6. Chapter 2 - Incoherent Feminism
  7. Chapter 3 - The Unbearable Lightness of Diana
  8. Chapter 4 - Feminist Fundamentalism:
  9. Chapter 5 - These New Components of the Spectacle:
  10. Part II
  11. Chapter 6 - The Sphinx in the City Reconsidered
  12. Chapter 7 - The Invisible Flâneur
  13. Chapter 8 - The Invisible Flâneur. Afterword
  14. Chapter 9 - Looking Backward:
  15. Chapter 10 - Writing the Romance of the Suburbs
  16. Chapter 11 - Living Dolls
  17. Chapter 12 - Bricolage City:
  18. Chapter 13 - Dogs in Space
  19. Chapter 14 - Notes on the Erotic City
  20. Chapter 15 - Against Utopia:
  21. References
  22. Index