Club Cultures and Female Subjectivity
Subtitle: The Move from Home to House
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave
Published: November 17, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780333946060
Subjects: Cultural studies; Feminism; Leisure; Social Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Popular Culture - General; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Media Studies; Discotheques; Social aspects; Social conditions; Social life and customs; Women
Description: "This work explores the significance which contemporary club cultures can have for women at a time when femininity is undergoing radical reconstruction. The book focuses upon the experiential accounts given by a range of 'raving' and clubbing women and illustrates how new (and, in some respects, more appropriate to our times) fictions of femininity are generated within these accounts. Club cultures can, it is argued, come to provide important sites for the exploration of new ways of being women-in-culture.

Focus upon these more subjective and experiential aspects reveals that today's dance cultures have much to offer women, and a lot more to say about femininity than is usually acknowledged. This suggests the limitations of much contemporary club culture criticism which concludes that because men tend to dominate at the levels of production and organisation, today's club cultures signal a sexual-political step backwards."--BOOK JACKET.