Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World: Toward an Engaged Cultural Criticism

Product Description Ranging across contemporary culture from the academy to shopping malls, this book offers engaged cultural criticism in a postfeminist context. Review “Mascia-Lees and Sharpe are keen observers of contemporary culture, scholars who cull evidence carefully to reach their conclusions. What’s more, they combine careful scholarship with representational inventiveness. They take creative risks with voice, structure, and subject. I’m sure their various takes on the post-feminist world will please many, anger some, and stimulate all.” ― Paul Stoller, author of Jaguar: A Story of Africans in America About the Author Professor Frances E. Mascia-Lees teaches anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College, and is the author of Toward a Model of Women’s Status and coauthor of Gender and Anthropology.Patricia Sharpe is Dean of Academic Affairs at Simon’s Rock College of Bard, and along with Frances E. Mascia-Lees, coedited Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text, also published by SUNY Press.