Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World: Toward an Engaged Cultural Criticism

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239 Index Academia adolescent students in, 14, 52–53, 153–166, 167, 170, 174, 176, 178–180, 185–186, 199, 214n. 1 (168) as marketplace of ideas, 120, 168 contradictions within, 3, 8, 169–170, 184 discourse of, 8, 106, 145, 154, 157, 160–164, 165, 213n. 4 (157), 214n. 1 (168) humanism and, 163, 164, 182 politics in, 156, 193 power in, 10, 174, 179, 180 sexuality in, 9, 103, 174, 181 women’s studies in, 4, 193 Aesthetics, 13, 47, 78, 98–99, 143–146, 147, 148, 149 Agency, 6, 134–136, 165 Anthropology colonialism and, 20, 26, 36, 38, 47, 48, 59 cultural criticism and, 5 ethics and, 41 globalization and, 12, 45, 48 inadequacies of, 6, 11, 12, 49–50, 59, 62, 105, 205n. 6 (29), 212n. 1 (146) photography and, 60, 62 politics of, 19, 49 postmodern, 11, 47, 48, 49, 19–42, 50, 53, 103, 105–106, 195, 204–205n. 1 (19), 208n. 6 (48) repression in, 46 rise of, 45–46, 104 tourism and, 46, 48–49 traditional, 45–46, 48, 53, 58, 60, 194, 199–200 travel and, 64–65 writing and, 11, 49, 106. See also New ethnography Anthropology as Cultural Critique, 19–20, 23, 66 Arts and Crafts Movement, 6, 14, 79, 90, 143–149 Benjamin, Walter, 6, 44–45, 51, 52, 54, 108–109, 111, 112, 207n. 2 (45), 208n. 8 (51) Bhabha, Homi, 4, 68 Blue Angel, The, 98 Body anthropology and, 194–195 film and, 81, 85, 88, 96, 107, 109–110, 113 inscription on, 196–197 language and, 107–109, 153–166, 193–196, 213n. 5 (159) mind and, 109, 159, 164. See also Female body Body modification, 8, 52–53, 112, 113, 165, 192–193, 209n. 12 (53) Bourdieu, Pierre, 145, 168 Boyz N the Hood, 100 Buck-Morss, Susan, 46, 109–110 Cannibal Tours, 48–51 Colonialism, 6, 15, 20, 26, 36, 38, 48, 59, 104–105, 111, 127–128, 148 Consumer culture class and, 132–133, 143–149 identity and, 5, 145, 148, 149 politics and, 7, 13, 146, 148, 192 women and, 3, 14, 85, 117–142, 146–147, 164 Country, 90 Cross-cultural representation anthropology and, 12, 58, 77 crisis of, 5, 20, 60 popular culture and, 13, 58–60, 62–63, 103–113, 148 race and, 63, 66, 68 traditional, 6, 11, 13, 193 Cultural criticism anthropology and, 5, 64, 66 engagement and, 4, 118–119, 120, 141–142, 191–202 ethics of, 6–7, 15 politics of, 66, 68 strategies of 7–9, 12, 14–16, 74, 138–139, 146, 165, 168, 185, 195–202 Cultural studies, 3, 97, 101, 146, 193, 211n. 6 (98) Dances with Wolves, 94, 95, 96, 101 Discourse(s) academic, 106, 160, 164, 165 body and, 153–166, 195 competition among, 5, 6, 8, 12, 169, 183–184 contradictions in, 136–137, 163, 164 how-to, 147 legal, 172 of bourgeois subject, 158, 159 of child abuse and incest, 174 of family values, 88–89, 90 of feminism, 3, 8, 14 of humanism, 8, 164, 182 of postcolonialism, 50, 193 of postmodernism, 8, 106 of self-help, 8, 12, 13, 93–94, 95–99, 164, 175, 176, 211n. 4 (96) writing as, 157 Do the Right Thing, 99 Doane, Mary Ann, 69, 71, 72, 78, 198 Doctor, The, 89, 90, 94, 95, 96 Eating disorders anorexia, 8, 154, 155, 159–160, 162 as communication, 159–160 as protest, 155–157, 163 bulimia, 154, 213n. 6 (160) language and, 160, 163 modernism and, 155 writing and, 154–155, 157, 161, 163 Elephant Man, The, 80, 81, 88 Ethics anthropology and, 11, 12, 41 cultural criticism and, 6–7, 15, 146, 149 environmental, 147 feminism and, 31 language and, 183 scholarship and, 187 Fashion, 14, 47, 118, 146–147, 164 Female body as blank page, 157 as text, 127 consumerism and, 14, 85, 117, 120, 146–147 in the academy, 14, 153–166 language and, 155, 158, 159 nakedness and, 15, 57, 69, 77, 153–154, 157, 193–194 objectivity and, 198 on display, 77, 125, 126, 137, 158, 193–194, 211n. 5 (97) writing and, 155, 196–197 Feminism backlash against, 80, 94, 95, 162, 203n. 2 (3) consumer culture and, 3, 146–147 contemporary, 3, 7, 73, 191 exclusive claims to, 9, 10, 200–201, 203n. 2 (3) humanism and, 168, 183, 184, 186 inadequacies of, 7, 72, 98 performance art and, 158 postmodernism and, 11, 168, 183, 186, 199 space and, 191, 192...