Cultural Studiesis an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts.
Author(s): L. Grossberg
Edition: 1
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 180
BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 2
COPYRIGHT......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
References......Page 17
ARTICLES......Page 19
CLAIMING TRUGANINI: AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL NARRATIVES IN THE YEAR OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES......Page 20
Engenderings......Page 21
‘Truganini’ and the cultural politics of 1993......Page 24
Claiming Truganini......Page 27
Postscript......Page 32
Notes......Page 33
References......Page 36
THE ANOREXIC BODY: READING DISORDERS......Page 38
Toxic bodies and poisoned texts......Page 40
Irrational consumption......Page 41
Reading/eating disorders......Page 43
Rewriting ‘anorexia’......Page 46
The metabolic body......Page 48
Notes......Page 50
References......Page 51
BODY SHOPPING: MATERNITY AND ALTERITY IN MAMATOTO......Page 54
Notes......Page 67
References......Page 68
‘AS HOUSEWIVES WE ARE WORMS’: WOMEN, MODERNITY AND THE HOME QUESTION......Page 71
The ‘home question’......Page 72
‘The women’s view’......Page 76
Women’s modernity?......Page 80
References......Page 82
COOKING UP: INTESTINAL ECONOMIES AND THE AESTHETICS OF SPECULAR ORALITY......Page 84
9½ Weeks and the specular aesthetics of orality......Page 88
Voluptuous dirt and excremental consumption: The Cook......Page 93
References......Page 98
TRANSVESTOPHILIA AND GYNEMIMESIS: PERFORMATIVE STRATEGIES AND FEMINIST THEORY......Page 101
Transvestophilia and gynemimesis......Page 103
Cross-sexual acts......Page 104
Incomplete performance......Page 106
The politics of performance......Page 110
Notes......Page 111
References......Page 112
REVIEW......Page 114
MODERN GIRLS......Page 115
References......Page 120
COMMENTARY......Page 121
A brief response to Stuart Hall’s comments on my essay ‘Cultural studies and ethnic absolutism’......Page 122
REVIEWS......Page 124
‘There’s a raft of norms at stake in the media’, Jason......Page 125
Boundary riders of the new literary studies......Page 129
References......Page 132
‘White, male and middle class’......Page 133
Reference......Page 136
Re-viewing the Gaze......Page 137
Videodisc, CD-ROM, DVI, CD-I, fiber optics, interactive, multimedia, virtual reality......Page 142
Notes......Page 150
References......Page 152
Re-visioning the Classroom: Agency and Possibility in Giroux’s ‘Living Dangerously’......Page 154
Playing the game of culture......Page 157
Chucky’s children......Page 165
Note......Page 169
How ads work (they don’t)......Page 170
References......Page 174
Stop the show!......Page 175
References......Page 179
Understanding the contemporary museum: implications for Cultural Studies?......Page 180
References......Page 182
We might get fooled again......Page 183
Notes on contributors......Page 188
Call for Papers and Contributions for a Special Issue on The Institutionalization of Cultural Studies......Page 190
Call for Papers ‘The Colour of Money’......Page 191
Other journals in the field of cultural studies......Page 192
INDEX......Page 194
