ebooks Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure by Hilary Radner in Arts-Photography

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Shopping Around investigates the issues of contemporary popular narrative; feminine pleasure; and consumer culture; viewing the permutations of the feminine subject as a textual construction evolved through everyday life. A wide spectrum of texts are examined; exposing the fact that women "read" within a complex and conflicted cultural arena characterized by a significant intertextuality that multiply defines "femininity." Shopping Around raises these issues in the context of everyday cultural practices such as applying make-up; reading magazines; watching television; and working-out; providing a unique introduction to postmodern feminist and cultural theory.