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Book SynopsisBlack British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodern themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, ''black'' identity and social and cultural difference this volume provides an overview of black feminism in Britain as it has developed during the last two decades.Among the topics covered are:* white feminism* political activism* ''mixed-race'' identity* class differences* cultural hybridity* autobiography* black beauty* religious fundamentalism* national belonging* lesbian identity* postcolonial space* popular cultureThis timely and important book is essential reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, women''s studies, sociology, literature and postcolonial studies.Trade Review'A must for anyone with an interest in gender issues written from a Black British context.' - Pride Magazine'This new collection brings together articles which have had an important influence on British Feminism ... the complex and sometimes strained effort to comprehend how to define space and change one's place presents the reader with a glimpse of new possibilities.' - Sage Race Relations Abstracts, May 1998'This collection of essays by black feminists is the first one entirely related to the black women's experience in Britain, and as such is a welcome and important addition to feminist scholarship. This is a diverse, scholarly and highly interesting collection of essays which make a serious contribution to our knowledge of the situation of black women in Britain today.' - Fawcett Library Newsletter, May 1998'An astute selection of essays with a genuinely multidisciplinary orientation a landmark book making accessible a significant proportion of the history of black feminism in late twentieth-century Britain.' - Interventions 1(4)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors Introduction: Mapping a Geneology of Black British Feminism Heidi Safia Mirza, South Bank University I. Shaping the Debate 1. Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain Amrit Wilson 2. Black Women, the Economic Crisis and the British State Amina Mama 3. Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe 4. White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boudaries of Sisterhood Hazel V. Carby 5. Challenging Imperial Feminism Valarie Amos and Pratibha Parmar 6. Transforming Socialist Feminism: The Challenge of Racism Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Margaret Coulson 7. Theories of Gender and Black Families Anne Phoenix 8. Other Kinds of Dreams Pratibha Parmar 9. Feminism and the Challenge of Racism: Deviance or Difference? Razia Aziz II. Defining Our Space 10. Raregrooves and Raregroovers: A Matter of Taste, Difference and Identity Bibi Bakare-Yusuf 11. (Mis)Representing the Black (Super)Woman Tracey Reynolds 12. Shades of Blackness: Young Black Female Constructions of Beauty Debbie Weekes, Nottingham Trent University 13. Diaspora's Daughters, Africa's Orphans?: On Lineage, Authenticity, and 'Mixed-Race' Identity Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, University of East London 14. 'It's a sun tan, isn't it?': Auto-biography as an Identificatory Practice Sara Ahmed, Lancaster University 15. Charting the Spaces of (un)Location: On Theorising Diaspora Magdalene Ang-Lygate 16. Fractured or Flexible Identities? Life Histories of 'Black' Diasporic Women in Britain Naz Rassool, University of Reading 17. In my Father's House there are Many Mansions: The Nation and the Postcolonial Desire Nalini Persram 18. Two Stories, Three Lovers and the Creation of Meaning in a Black Lesbian Autobiography: A Diary Consuelo Rivera Fuentes, Lancaster University 19. My Body, Myself: How Does a Black Woman Do Sociology? Felly Nkweto Simmonds, University of Northumbria, Newcastle Upon Tyne 20. The Fabulous Adventures of the Mahogany Princesses Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of Birmingham III. Changing Our Place 21. Third Wave Feminism and Black Women's Activism Pragna Patel 22. Black Women in Education: A Collective Movement for Social Change Heidi Safia Mirza, South Bank University, London 23. The Language of 'Womanism': Rethinking 'Difference' Helen (charles) Bibliography
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Book SynopsisThis collection of classic essays focuses on the theoretical frameworks that informed the work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, the methodologies and working practices that the Centre developed for conducting academic research and examples of the ''grounded studies'' carried out under the auspices of the Centre. This volume is split into four thematic sections that are introduced by key academics working in the field of cultural studies, and includes a preface by eminent scholar, Stuart Hall. The thematic sections are: CCCS Founding Moments Theoretical Engagements Theorising Experience, Exploring Methods Grounded Studies. Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction. CCCS Founding Moments. Theoretical Engagements. Theorising Experience. Exploring Methods. Grounded Studies
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Book SynopsisThis collection of classic essays focuses on the theoretical frameworks that informed the work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, the methodologies and working practices that the Centre developed for conducting academic research and examples of the studies carried out under the auspices of the Centre. This volume is split into seven thematic sections that are introduced by key academics working in the field of cultural studies, and includes a preface by eminent scholar, Stuart Hall. The thematic sections are: Literature and Society Popular Culture and Youth Subculture Media Women's Studies and Feminism Race History Education and Work. Table of ContentsIntroduction SECTION 1 Literature and society Introduction 1 Introduction to the French edition of Uses of Literacy 2 Literature/society: Mapping the field 3 Reading literature as culture 4 Notes on a theory of genre 5 Walter Greenwood: Working-class writer 6 Lawrence, Leavis and culture 7 The abuses of literacy 8 The hidden method: Lucien Goldmann and the sociology of literature SECTION 2 Popular culture and youth subculture Introduction 9 The Hippies: An American ‘moment’ 10 The meaning of Tom Jones 11 The politics of popular culture 12 Breaking out, smashing up and the social context of aspiration 13 Working class youth cultures 14 Girls and subcultures 15 Defending ski-jumpers: A critique of theories of youth sub-cultures SECTION Media, Introduction 16 The spectacular world of Whicker 17 Television news and the Social Contract 18 Housewives and the mass media 19 Newsmaking and crime 20 The ‘unity’ of current affairs television 21 The ‘structured communication’ of events 22 Encoding and decoding in the television discourse 23 Reconceptualising the media audience: Towards an ethnography of audience SECTION 4 Women’s studies and feminism, Introduction 24 Images of women in the media 25 Relations of production: Relations of re-production 26 ‘It is well known that by nature women are inclined to be rather personal’ 27 A woman’s world: ‘Woman’ – an ideology of femininity 28 Housewives: Isolation as oppression 29 Psychoanalysis and the cultural acquisition of sexuality and subjectivity 30 The good, the bad and the ugly: Images of young women in the labour market SECTION 5 Race, Introduction: Lost in translation 31 Down these mean streets . the meaning of mugging 32 Reggae, Rastas and Rudies: Style and the subversion of form 33 On the political economy of black labour and the racial structuring of the working class in England 34 Multicultural fictions 35 The organic crisis of British capitalism and race: The experience of the seventies 36 Just plain common sense: The ‘roots’ of racism 37 White woman listen! Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood SECTION 6 History, Introduction: Entangled histories 38 Economy, culture and concept: Three approaches to marxist history 39 Out of the people: The politics of containment 1935–45, 40 The history of a working-class Methodist Chapel 41 ‘Ideology’ and ‘consciousness’: Some problems in Marxist historiography 42 Women domestic servants 1919–1939: A study of a hidden Army, illustrated by servants’ own recollected experiences 43 What do we mean by popular memory? SECTION 7 Education and work Introduction: The books at the end of the shelf 44 Social democracy, education and the crisis 45 Perspectives on schooling and politics 46 The Adult Literacy Campaign: Politics and practices 47 The strange fate of progressive education 48 How working class kids get working class jobs
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