Changing Cultures: Feminism, Youth and ConsumerismSAGE Publications, 1992 M05 27 - 256 pages Changing Cultures brings together a selection of challenging essays which have their roots in the fertile convergence of feminism, sociology and cultural studies. Themes include the assessment of feminist theory, its transformations and its ability to illuminate issues and practices. The complex relationship between objects of study, their political implications and their historical context is a recurring theme. The book includes analyses of the utopianism of feminist thought on the family; sexuality and sexual difference in youth service provision; and the symbolic resonance of the urban and the domestic in the education of girls. It goes on to investigate child sexual abuse in relation to problems of interpretation |
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Youth Service Provision Social Order and the Question | 94 |
A Feminist Response to AdultChild | 123 |
Consumerism and its Contradictions | 162 |
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