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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457869003321

Autore

Kipnis Laura

Titolo

Ecstasy unlimited [[electronic resource] ] : on sex, capital, gender, and aesthetics / / Laura Kipnis ; foreword by Paul Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993

ISBN

0-8166-8405-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Disciplina

306.0973

306/.0973

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Political culture - United States

Popular culture - United States

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. [295]-301) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Videotape Distribution Information; 1. Introduction: Crossing the Theory/Practice Rubicon; 2. Repossessing Popular Culture; 3. Ecstasy Unlimited: The Interpenetrations of Sex and Capital (1985); 4. Looks Good on Paper: Marxism and Feminism in a Postmodern World; 5. A Man's Woman (1987); 6. ""The Phantom Twitchings of an Amputated Limb"": Colonialism as a Female Disease; 7. Aesthetics and Foreign Policy; 8. (Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler; 9. Marx: The Video: A Politics of Revolting Bodies (1990); Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A unique collection of essays on popular culture, politics, aesthetics, feminism, and postmodernism, along with complete scripts from three of Kipnis' videotapes.