Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies

Abstract

Introduction One: Feminism and Cultural Studies: Pasts, Presents, Futures, The Editors Introduction Two: Feminism, Marxism and Thatcherism, The Editors Section One: Representation and Identity Melodrama's Gendered Audience Angela Partington Open or Closed: Popular Magazines and Dominant Culture Helen Pleasance Having it All: Feminism and the Pleasure of the Popular Yvonne Tasker Reading the Self: Autobiography, Gender and the Institution of the Literary Celia Lury Is 'Doing Nothing' Just Boys' Play?: Integrating Feminist and Cultural Studies Perspectives on Working Class Young Men's Masculinity Joyce E Canaan Section Two: Science and Technology Science and Technology: Questions for Cultural Studies and for Feminism Maureen McNeil and Sarah Franklin In the Wake of the Alton Bill: Science, Technology and Reproductive Politics The Science and Technology Subgroup Introduction: Why the Alton Bill? The Science and Technology Subgroup Section One: Putting the Alton Bill in Context Maureen McNeil Section Two: Abortion Acts: 1803-1967 Wendy Fyfe Section Three: Adversarial Politics The Legal Construction of Abortion Deborah Lynn Steinberg Section Four: Fetal Fascinations: New Dimensions to the Medical- Scientific Construction of Fetal Personhood Sarah Franklin Section Five: The Alton Bill and the Media's 'Consensual' Position Tessa Randles Conclusion: Feminism and Abortion: Pasts, Presents, Futures The Science and Technology Subgroup Section Three: Thatcherism and the Enterprise Culture Making and Not Making the Differences: The Gender Politics of Thatcherism Maureen McNeil Enterprising Women: Images of Success in Thatcher's Britain Janet Newman Enterprise Fictions: Women's Substance Estella Tincknell Redefining Cultural Identities Evelyn Reid Promoting Normality: Section 28 and the Regulation of Sexuality Jackie Stacey Index