The Pirate's Fiance?e: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism - Softcover

Morris, Meaghan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860919269 ISBN 13: 9780860919261

Publisher: Verso, 1988

Synopsis

‘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.

About this title

About the Author:

Meaghan Morris is a full-time writer who has worked as a professional film critic and lectured in art and media studies.

Review:

“a combination of entertaining pedagogy and intellectual verve ... sheer delight.”—Times Educational Supplement

“With enormous verve and style she brilliantly intertwines her analyses of the texts of the masters and the occasional mistress) of postmodernism/poststrucuralism with her own political concerns.”—New Statesman and Society

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0860919269
• ISBN 13: 9780860919261
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298