The Pirate's Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism (Questions for Feminism) - Hardcover

Morris, Meaghan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0860912124 ISBN 13: 9780860912125

Publisher: Verso Books, 1988

Synopsis

'Appropriation', 'bricolage', 'recording', 'scavenging' - a scenario of image piracy has provided the buzzwords of pop cultural theory for most of the 1980s. while programmes for political action in culture have increasingly taken the form of a romance of buccaneering, the more sedate theoretical disputes about postmodernism have begun to generate a myth that feminists, or even women, have so far said little or nothing about one of the most action-packed debates of the decade. Taking her title from a 1969 film by Nelly Kaplan, Meaghan Morris considers the implications for feminism of a politics which transforms the materials of culture. She also considers the implications for post-modernism and pop theory of recognising the extent to which they already represent a borrowing of feminist thought. In a collection of essays on subjects ranging from blockbuster cinema to art photography, from Foucault to Mary Daly, from Susan Sontag and Jean Baudrillard to Paul Hogan, she argues that a feminist practice of rewriting discourses should emerge from a political critique of the positioning of women, rather than a vague thematics of changing things.

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Review:

"With enormous verve and style she brilliantly intertwines her analyses of the texts of the masters and the occasional mistress) of postmodernism/poststrucuralism with her own political concerns." - New Statesman and Society "a combination of entertaining pedagogy and intellectual verve... sheer delight." - Times Educational Supplement

About the Author:

Meaghan Morris is a full-time writer who has worked as a professional film critic and lectured in art and media studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0860912124
• ISBN 13: 9780860912125
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304