The contradictions of culture : cities, culture, women /

The contradictions of culture : cities, culture, women /

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Author / Creator:	Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936-
Imprint:	London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif : SAGE, 2001.
Description:	1 online resource (167 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Theory, culture & society Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Subject:	Women -- Sociological aspects. Feminism. Sociology, Urban. Feminism. Sociology, Urban. Women -- Sociological aspects. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11137681

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ISBN:	9781446265796 144626579X 9780761969747 0761969748 9781446220481 1446220486 9780761969754 0761969748 0761969756
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-162) and index.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: 9780761969754

Table of Contents:

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