Global Nature, Global Culture

Sarah Franklin, Celia Lury, Jackie Stacey

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN:
  9780761965992
  9780761965985
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781446264997
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

`An excellent book. The authors have the rare capacity to handle popular culture and case studies in a theoretically informed manner. Original and well researched? - Mike Featherstone, Nottingham Trent University

Understandings of globalization have been little explored in relation to gender or related concerns such as identity, subjectivity and the body. This book contrasts `the natural? and `the global? as interpretive strategies, using approaches from feminist cultural theory. The book begins by introducing the central themes: ideas of the natural; questions of scale and context posed by globalization and their relation to forms of cultural production; the transformation of genealogy; and the emergence of interest in definitions of life and life forms. The authors explores these questions through a number of case studies including Benneton advertising, Jurassic Park, The Body Shop, British Airways, Monsanto and Dolly the Sheep. In order to respecify the `nature, culture and gender? concerns of two decades of feminist theory, this highly original book reflects, hypothesizes and develops new interpretive possibilities within established feminist analytical frames.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I - Second Nature
• Chapter 1 - Spheres of Life
• Chapter 2 - Imprints of Time
• Chapter 3 - Units of Genealogy
• Part II - Nature Seconded
• Chapter 4 - The Global Within: Consuming Nature, Embodying Health
• Chapter 5 - The United Colors of Diversity Essential and Inessential Culture: Essential and Inessential Culture
• Chapter 6 - Life Itself Global Nature and the Genetic Imaginary
• Bibliography
• Index