Short description
Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, this work presents a collection of feminist explorations.Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, this work presents a collection of feminist explorations.
Long description
According to the "Washington Post", no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, "Outlaw Culture" presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a 'powerful site for intervention, challenge and change'. And intervene, challenge and change is what hooks does best.
Review
'[hooks] made a choice to write for the largest possible audience, to change the greatest number of lives.' - Times Higher Education Supplement
Table of contents
- Introduction: The Heartbeat of Cultural Revolution
- 1. Power to the Pussy - We don't Wannabe Dicks in Drag
- 2. Altars of Sacrifice - Re-membering Basquiat
- 3. What's Passion Got to Do With It ? An Interview with Marie-France Alderman
- 4. Seduction and Betrayal - The Crying Game Meets The Bodyguard
- 5. Censorship from Left and Right
- 6. Talking Sex - Beyond the Patriarchal Phallic Imaginary
- 7. Camille Paglia - "Black" Pagan or White Colonizer
- 8. Dissident Heat - Fire with Fire
- 9. Katie Roiphe - A Little Feminist Excess Goes a Long Way
- 10. Seduced by Violence No More
- 11. Gangsta Culture - Sexism and Misogyny - Who Will Take the Rap
- 12. Ice Cube Culture - A Shared Passion for Speaking Truth
- 13. Spending Culture - Marketing the Black Underclass
- 14. Spike Lee Doing Malcolm X - Denying Black Pain
- 15. Seeing and Making Culture - Representing the Poor
- 16. Back to Black - Ending Internalized Racism
- 17. Malcolm X - The Longed-for Feminist Manhood
- 18. Columbus - Gone But Not Forgotten
- 19. Moving Into and Beyond Feminism - Just for the Joy of It
- 20. Love as the Practice of Freedom.