Class, Self, Culture puts class back on the map in a novel way by taking a new look at how class is made and given value through culture. It shows how different classes become attributed with value, enabling culture to be deployed as a resource and as a form of property, which has both use-value to[...]
Sexuality and the Politics of Violence offers a timely and critical exploration of issues of safety and security at the centre of responses to violence. Through a multi-disciplinary analysis, drawing on feminism, lesbian and gay studies, sociology, cultural geography, criminology and critical legal [...]
The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour. The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to [...]
Explanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism and in cultural and social theory. Formations of Class & Gender demonstrates why class should be featured more prominently in theoretical accounts of gender, identity and power. Beverley Skeggs identif[...]
This text argues that class should be featured more prominently in feminist accounts of identity and power, explaining that class and gender must be fused together to produce an accurate picture of power relations in modern society.[...]
A meeting ground for mainstream social theory and contemporary feminist theory. * Brings feminist theory face to face with Pierre Bourdieu's social theory. * Demonstrates how much Bourdieu's theory has to offer to contemporary feminism. * Comprises a series of contributions from key contemporary [...]
Respektabilitet är ett av de mest genomgripande tecknen på klasstillhörighet. Respektabiliteten präglar vårt sätt att tala, vem vi talar med, hur vi klassificerar andra, vad vi studerar och hur vi vet vilka vi är (eller inte är). De som bryr sig om respektabilitet är oftast de som inte anse[...]
Förhållandet mellan feminismen och den socialistiska vänstern har ibland beskrivits som ett ?olyckligt äktenskap?: den återkommande frågan har varit om det är klass eller kön som ska ges politiskt företräde. I Fronesis nr 25?26 samsas historiska tillbakablickar med analyser av dagens spän[...]