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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451937903321

Autore

Wilson Elizabeth <1936->

Titolo

The contradictions of culture [[electronic resource] ] : cities, culture, women / / Elizabeth Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2001

ISBN

9780761969756

1-283-87967-0

1-4462-6579-X

1-4462-2048-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Women - Sociological aspects

Feminism

Sociology, Urban

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.[155]-162) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Chapter 15 - Against Utopia:References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume regards contemporary culture as incoherent, and confronts the contradictory nature of cultureal relations. It illustrates the cultural contradiction with the furious debates within 1980's feminism on the nature and effects of pornography.