Becoming a Woman Through Romance"Using approaches from feminism and cultural studies, this work explores the contradictory role that popular culture plays in the construction of gender, class, race, age, and sexual meanings. Christian-Smith dissects the conservative political themes underlying thirty-four teen romance novels, demonstrating how their flowery versions of romance and femininity actually inscribe white middle class gender ideology and class tensions."--Book desc. amazon.com. |
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... popular culture ? Popular cultural forms matter because of what they themselves do and what people do with them . They are involved intimately in securing and producing the consent of women and men to particular hegemonic meanings for ...
... popular culture ? Popular cultural forms matter because of what they themselves do and what people do with them . They are involved intimately in securing and producing the consent of women and men to particular hegemonic meanings for ...
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... Popular - culture forms can be used to shape a feminist cultural politics . Feminist politics of popular culture Bennett ( 1986 ) characterizes popular culture as the " area of negotiation " between dominant and opposing cultural ...
... Popular - culture forms can be used to shape a feminist cultural politics . Feminist politics of popular culture Bennett ( 1986 ) characterizes popular culture as the " area of negotiation " between dominant and opposing cultural ...
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... popular culture in its commodity form is in the hands of large corporate interests representing the New Right , it is vital that cultural struggles continue to be directed towards the corporate sector . Cultural forms like film ...
... popular culture in its commodity form is in the hands of large corporate interests representing the New Right , it is vital that cultural struggles continue to be directed towards the corporate sector . Cultural forms like film ...
Contents
The Code of Romance | 16 |
The Code of Sexuality | 30 |
The Code of Beautification 43 3 | 43 |
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