Club Cultures and Female Subjectivity: The Move from Home to House

by Maria Pini

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333946060
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/06/2001
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.03(d)
Lexile:	1360L (what's this?)

About the Author

MARIA PINI is post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is author of a number of published articles on women and dance cultures.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: WHO KNOWS? Invisible Women in Increasingly Visible Club Cultures Situating Voices: Towards a Post-foundational Study of 'Women's Experiences' PART TWO: FROM BEDROOM CULTURE TO DANCE CULTURES Down to Specifics: Study Design, Method and Presentation Moving Homes: Femininity under Reconstruction Cyborgs, Nomads and the Raving Feminine Peak Practices: The Production and Regulation of Ecstatic Bodies Conclusions: 'Losing It': Dance Cultures and Changing Femininities Bibliography Index