The contradictions of culture : cities, culture, women /
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| Author / Creator: | Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936- |
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| Imprint: | London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif : SAGE, 2001. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (167 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Theory, culture & society Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11137681 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (167 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-162) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781446265796 144626579X 9780761969747 0761969748 9781446220481 1446220486 9780761969754 0761969756 |