Material Girls: Making Sense of Feminist Cultural Theory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520089785)

Madonna, Murphy Brown, Thelma and Louise: These much-discussed media icons are the starting points of Suzanna Walter's brilliant, much-needed introduction to feminist cultural theory. Accessible yet theoretically sophisticated, up-to-date and entertaining, Material Girls acquaints readers with the major theories, debates, and concepts in this new and exciting field.

With numerous case studies and illustrations, Walters situates feminist cultural theory against the background of the women's movement and media studies. Using examples from film, television, advertising, and popular discourse, she looks at topics such as the "male gaze," narrative theory, and new work on female "ways of seeing" and spectatorship. Throughout, Walters provides a historically grounded account of representations of women in popular culture while critiquing the dominance of psychoanalytic and postmodern analyses.

The first comprehensive guide to the approaches and debates that make up this growing field, Material Girls belongs on the shelf of every cultural critic and savvy student today.

Author: Suzanna Danuta Walters
ISBN-10: 0520089782
ISBN-13: 9780520089785
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1995
Pages: 221
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.93h x 6.00w x 0.68d