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Exploring various forms of contemporary mass art and culture, from rock-'n'-roll music to "slasher" films, from women's romances to "retro" fashion style, these essays reflect the paradox inherent in taking a critical approach to mass culture. This text offers an array of essays explaining important facets of contemporary culture.

Demonstrates the centrality of aesthetics and the literary to studies of otherness and cultural contact. Drawing on literary theory, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, this title contends that literature facilitates contact with cultures that may seem foreign to us.

Miller, Tania Modleski, Sondra O'Neale, Sheila Radford-Hill, Cherrie Moraga, Biddy Martin, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, and Mary Russo.

Meehan, Andrew Ross, Lynne Joyrich, Jane Gaines, Margaret Morse, Mary Ann Doane, and Stephen Heath.

A collection of essays that deepens our understanding of Jacques Derrida, and removes the suspicion of mystification from his treatment of philosophic and literary issues. It focuses on displacement. It exemplifies the sophistication toward deconstruction in Britain and the United States.

Argues that teaching is a performance that incorporates the personal in acts of "im-personation."

Explores the issue of cultural otherness in fiction, film, and other forms. The author argues, what demands to be examined critically is no longer identity politics per se but, more precisely, the idealism - especially in the sense of idealizing otherness - that lies at the heart of identity politics.

Discusses role of ohistoriesO in cultural studies.

With every new media frenzy over surrogacy, cloning, organ transplantation, and the like, people raise troubling questions: Can a child have two mothers? Should we learn our genetic futures? This book traces such questions and their political and personal stakes over the last 100 years and in several contemporary locations.

Explores the complex connections between our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. This title examines the ways we talk, write, photograph, imagine, and otherwise represent animals. It includes topics such as pet cloning, fox hunting, animatronic characters, and how we displace our fear of aging onto our dogs.

Like other markers of social difference, age is given meaning by a culture. Yet unlike gender and race, the subjects of age and aging have received little sustained attention. This book engages the virtually invisible subject of older women in western culture.