num_pages: 176
description: Analyzes the construction of the feminine in contemporary American culture.Griggers analyzes contemporary articulations of the feminine in American cultural practices ranging from fashion to feticide, from Hollywood’s production of feminine charismatic military leaders to pop-mediated lesbianism, from serial killing to domestic violence to psychiatry. Becoming-Woman shows how expressions of the feminine are determined by optical and electronic media, psychopharmacology, the war machine, the chemical industry, plastics technology, and bioscience."A powerful and provocative mapping out of the machinations involved in becoming-woman. Camilla Griggers winds a deft path through Vogue fashion spreads, lesbian serial killers, prozac and the theories of Deleuze and Guattari and gives us a feminist assemblage that is more than equal to the rigors of cultures she describes."— Elspeth Probyn, University of Sydney
language: English
title: Becoming-Woman (Volume 8)
titlecomplete: Becoming-Woman (Volume 8) (Theory Out Of Bounds)
genres: Feminism
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press