Culture/power/history : a reader in contemporary social theory
Offers a perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. This readers includes essays that address Foucault's "new economy of power relations" in a number of different, contestatory directions.
Print Book, English, ©1994
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1994
estudios y conferencias
xiv, 621 p. : il. ; 23 cm.
9780691021027, 9780691032207, 0691021023, 0691032203
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PrefacePermissions AcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. 1Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-193649Ch. 2Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory96Ch. 3The Exhibitionary Complex123Ch. 4Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power155Ch. 5Two Lectures200Ch. 6After the Masses222Ch. 7Family, Education, Photography236Ch. 8Authority, (White) Power and the (Black) Critic; It's All Greek to Me247Ch. 9Women, Class and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s: Some Reflections on the Writing of a Feminist History269Ch. 10Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century297Ch. 11The Prose of Counter-Insurgency336Ch. 12Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties372Ch. 13Cosmologies of Capitalism: The Trans-Pacific Sector of "The World System"412Ch. 14Living to Tell: Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly459Ch. 15Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact483Ch. 16The Circulation of Social Energy504Ch. 17Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms520Ch. 18The Born-Again Telescandals539Ch. 19Secrets of Success in Postmodern Society557Ch. 20Selections from Marxism and Literature585Notes on the Contributors609Index613