Club Cultures and Female Subjectivity: The Move from Home to House (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333946060)

This work explores the significance which contemporary club cultures can have for women at a time when femininity is undergoing radical reconstruction. The book focuses upon the experiential accounts given by a range of 'raving' and clubbing women and illustrates how new (and, in some respects, more appropriate to our times) fictions of femininity are generated within these accounts. Club cultures can, it is argued, come to provide important sites for the exploration of new ways of being women-in-culture. Focus upon these more subjective and experiential aspects reveals that today's dance cultures have much to offer women, and a lot more to say about femininity than is usually acknowledged. This suggests the limitations of much contemporary club culture criticism which concludes that because men tend to dominate at the levels of production and organisation, today's club cultures signal a sexual-political step backwards.

Author: Maria Pini
ISBN-10: 0333946065
ISBN-13: 9780333946060
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2001
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d