'Appropriation', 'bricolage', 'recording', 'scavenging'-a scenario of image piracy has provided the buzzwords of pop cultural theory for most of the 1980s. While programmes for political action in culture have increasingly taken the form of a romance of buccaneering, the more sedate theoretical disputes about postmodernism have begun to generate a myth that feminists, or even women, have so far said little or nothing about one of the most action-packed debates of the decade.
Taking her title from a 1969 film by Nelly Kaplan, Meaghan Morris considers the implications for feminism of a politics which transforms the materials of culture. She also considers the implications for post-modernism and pop theory of recognising the extent to which they already represent a borrowing of feminist thought.
In a collection of essays on subjects ranging from blockbuster cinema to art photography, from Foucault to Mary Daly, from Susan Sontag and Jean Baudrillard to Paul Hogan, she argues that a feminist practice of rewriting discourses should emerge from a political critique of the positioning of women, rather than a vague thematics of changing things.
| ISBN: | 9780860919261 |
| Publication date: | 17th November 1988 |
| Author: | Meaghan Morris |
| Publisher: | Verso |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 298 pages |
| Series: | Questions for Feminism |
| Genres: |
Cultural studies Gender studies: women and girls |