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The Pirate's Fiancee: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Verso Books
Publication date November 1, 1988
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780860919261
ISBN-10 0860919269
Dimensions 1.25 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $18.00
§As reported by publisher
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: ‘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.

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from Verso Books (November 1, 1988); titled "The Pirate's Fiancee: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism"
9780860919261 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $18.00
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