Material Girls – Making Sense of Feminist Cultural Theory - Hardcover

Walters, Suzanna Danuta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520089774 ISBN 13: 9780520089778

Publisher: University of California Press, 1995

Synopsis

Madonna, Murphy Brown, Thelma and Louise: these much-discussed media icons are the starting points of this introduction to feminist cultural theory. Accessible, yet theoretically sophisticated, up-to-date and entertaining, this book acquaints readers with the major theories, debates and concepts in this new and exciting field. With numerous case studies and illustrations, Walters situates feminist cultural theory against the background of the women's movement and media studies. Using examples from film, television, advertising and popular discourse, she looks at topics such as the "male gaze," narrative theory, and new work on female "ways of seeing" and spectatorship. Throughout, Walters provides a historically grounded account of representations of women in popular culture while critiquing the dominance of psychoanalytic and postmodern analyses.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

""Material Girls is both a very accessible and a theoretically sophisticated work. It is highly valuable for graduate and undergraduate courses in women's studies, cultural studies, and sociology of culture courses. And Walters presents her own perspective on feminist cultural studies, making this an important book."--Andrea Walsh, Women's Studies Program, Harvard University

About the Author:

Suzanna Danuta Walters is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, and author of Lives Together/Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture (California, 1992).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0520089774
• ISBN 13: 9780520089778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232