Cultural studies and modern feminism are contemporaries and their short histories have been closely interwoven. Feminist cultural studies is consequently a particularly rich field for study and research.

Contents: Volume I PART I: CULTURE IS ORDINARY 1. Micaela di Leonardo (1987), ‘The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship’ 2. Barbara Littlewood (1987) ‘Women, Words and Power: A Study of the Language of Magic in Southern Italy’ 3. Peter Bailey (1990), ‘Parasexuality and Glamour: the Victorian Barmaid as Cultural Prototype’ 4. Mica Nava (1992), ‘Outrage and Anxiety in the Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse: Cleveland and the Press’ 5. Janice Winship (1981), ‘Handling Sex’ 6. Jennifer Craik (1989), ‘“I must put my face on”: Making Up the Body and Marking Out the Feminine’ PART II: MAKING SUBJECTIVITIES: MAKING SOCIAL IDENTITIES 7. Carolyn Steedman (1980), ‘The Tidy House’ 8. Jacqueline Rose (1985), ‘State and Language: Peter Pan as Written for the Child’ 9. Mitzi Myers, (1989), ‘“Servants as They are Now Educated”: Women Writers and Georgian Pedogogy’ 10. Regenia Gagnier, (1989), ‘The Literary Standard, Working-Class Lifewriting, and Gender’ 11. Liz Stanley, (1990), ‘Moments of Writing: Is There a Feminist Auto/biography?’ 12. Judith R. Walkowitz (1986), ‘Science, Feminism and Romance: The Men and Women’s Club 1885–1889’ PART III: FEMINISM AND GENDER IN POPULAR CULTURE 13. Charlotte Brunsdon (1991), ‘Pedagogies of the Feminine: Feminist Teaching and Women’s Genres’ 14. Beverley Alcock and Jocelyn Robson (1990), ‘Cagney and Lacey Revisited’ 15. Judith Mayne, (1988), L.A. Law and Prime-Time Feminism’ 16. Susan McClary (1990), ‘Living to Tell: Madonna’s Resurrection of the Fleshly’ 17. Rita Felski (1990), ‘Kitsch, Romance Fiction and Male Paranoia: Stephen King Meets the Frankfurt School’ 18. Frigga Haug (1987), ‘Daydreams’ PART IV: CULTURE AND CONSUMPTION 19. Jane Gaines (1989), ‘The Queen Christina Tie-Ups: Convergence of Show Window and Screen’ 20. Mary Ann Doane (1989), ‘The Economy of Desire: The Commodity Form in/of the Cinema’ 21. Susan Willis (1990), ‘“I want the black one”: Is There a Place for Afro-American Culture in Commodity Culture?’ 22. Ann K. Clark (1987), ‘The Girl: A Rhetoric of Desire’ 23. Danae Clark (1991), ‘Commodity Lesbianism’ PART V: READERS AND AUDIENCES 24. Janice A. Radway (1986), ‘Reading is Not Eating: Mass-Produced Literature and the Theoretical, Methodological, and Political Consequences of a Metaphor’ 25. Gill Frith (1991), ‘Transforming Features: Double Vision and the Female Reader’ 26. Helen Taylor (1993), Anniversaries, Sequels and Bandwagons: Gone With the Wind, 1989–91”, Women: A Cultural Review’ 27. Laura Mulvey (1989), ‘British Feminist Film Theory’s Female Spectators: Presence and Absence’ Volume II PART I: SOME OVERVIEWS 1. Catherine R. Stimpson (1988), ‘Nancy Reagan Wears a Hat: Feminism and Its Cultural Consensus’ 2. Lisa Tickner (1988), ‘Feminism, Art History, and Sexual Difference’ 3. Ginette Vincendeau (1987), ‘Women’s Cinema, Film Theory and Feminism in France: Reflections after the 1987 Creteil Festival’ 4. Chandra Talpade Mohanty (1988), ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’ PART II: THEORY AND METHOD 5. Barbara Creed (1987), ‘From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism’ 6. Mary Poovey (1988), ‘Feminism and Deconstruction’ 7. Sue-Ellen Case (1988-89), ‘Towards a Butch-Femme Aesthetic’ 8. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak with Ellen Rooney, (1993), ‘In a Word. Interview’ 9. Toril Moi (1991), ‘Appropriating Bourdieu: Feminist Theory and Pierre Bourdieu’s Sociology of Culture’ 10. Jenny Taylor (1991), ‘Dreams of a Common Language: Science, Gender and Culture’ 11. Angela McRobbie (1991), ‘New Times in Cultural Studies’ 12. Sarah Franklin, Celia Lury and Jackie Stacey (1991), ‘Feminism and Cultural Studies: Pasts, Presents, Futures’ Part III: THE BODY SIGNIFIES 13. Deborah Cameron, (1992), ‘Naming of Parts: Gender, Culture, and Terms for the Penis Among American College Students’ 14. Sander L. Gilman (1992), ‘Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Art, Medicine, and Literature’ 15. Sally Peters (1992), ‘From Eroticism to Transcendence: Ballroom Dance and the Female Body’ 16. Sandra Kemp (1992), ‘“Let’s Watch a Little How He Dances” – Performing Cultural Studies’ 17. Annette Kuhn (1989), ‘The Body and Cinema: Some Problems for Feminism’ 18. Susan Bordo (1993), ‘“Material Girl”: The Effacements of Postmodern Culture’ 19. Rosi Braidotti (1989), ‘Organs Without Bodies’ PART IV: WORDS AND WORLDS 20. Carol Cohn (1987), ‘Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defence Intellectuals’ 21. Hazel V. Carby (1985), ‘“On the Threshold of Women’s Era”: Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory’ 22. Katie King (1988), ‘Audre Lorde’s Lacquered Layerings: The Lesbian Bar as a Site of Literary Production’ 23. Toni Morrison, (1989), ‘Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature’ 24. Kathryn Dodd (1990), ‘Cultural Politics and Women’s Historical Writing: The Case of Ray Strachey’s The Cause’ PART V: VISIBLE WORLDS 25. Wendy Kozol, (1988), ‘Madonnas of the Fields: Photography, Gender, and 1930s Farm Relief’ 26. Christine Holmlund (1991), ‘When is a Lesbian Not a Lesbian?: The Lesbian Continuum and the Mainstream Femme Film’ 27. Lynda Nead (1990), ‘The Female Nude: Pornography, Art, and Sexuality’ 28. Susan Gubar (1987), ‘Representing Pornography: Feminism, Criticism, and Depictions of Female Violation’ 29. Elizabeth Wilson (1992), ‘The Invisible Flâneur’ Name Index