Description:
This major introduction to feminist cultural studies provides an important new synthesis of the feminist critique of culture. It also brilliantly reflects the interdisciplinary approach of cultural studies.
The book opens with an exploration of the development of feminist academic practice and an overview of the full range of feminist theory. It includes full coverage of the equality/difference debate. Chapters then examine the impact of women's studies on linguistics, literary theory, popular culture, history, film theory, art history, theatre studies and musicology. Part two explores the politics, theories and methods of feminist study including psychoanalysis, black criticism, lesbian studies and semiotics. This book is essential reading for anyone who needs a lively and accessible explanation of how feminism has taken culture and its academic study by storm.Brief description:
Rosemarie Buikema is Professor of Art, Culture and Diversity at Utrecht University. She chairs the UU Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) and is the scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG). In that capacity, she also co-ordinates the UU share in the Erasmus Mundus Master in Gender Studies (GEMMA) and directs the annual international Summer School in Gender Studies: NOISE. She co-chairs the UU IOS Hub Gender and Diversity: Building an Inclusive Society and she is the initiator and project leader of MOED, Museum of Equality and Difference.
She is currently the principal investigator for the Horizon2020 Cultures of Equality Innovative Training Network project where she is responsible for the work package: Textual and Artistic Cultures of Gender Equality. She has extensive experience in supervising and directing large cultural and academic events and projects among others an EU FP6 Early Stage Research training programme which delivered 39 PHD's EU-wide.Review Quotes:
"In this challenging work, feminist scholars cross boundaries to engage readers in a critical multi-cultural dialogue that expands our understanding of feminist theory and practice generally." --bell hooks, City College of New York
"A wonderful book for teaching women's studies." --Joan W Scott, Princeton University