Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies: Cultural Studies Birmingham

Introduction One: Feminism and Cultural Studies: Pasts, Presents, Futures, The Editors Introduction Two: Feminism, Marxism and Thatcherism, The Editors Section One: Representation and Identity Melodrama's Gendered Audience Angela Partington Open or Closed: Popular Magazines and Dominant Culture Helen Pleasance Having it All: Feminism and the Pleasure of the Popular Yvonne Tasker Reading the Self: Autobiography, Gender and the Institution of the Literary Celia Lury Is 'Doing Nothing' Just Boys' Play?: Integrating Feminist and Cultural Studies Perspectives on Working Class Young Men's Masculinity Joyce E Canaan Section Two: Science and Technology Science and Technology: Questions for Cultural Studies and for Feminism Maureen McNeil and Sarah Franklin In the Wake of the Alton Bill: Science, Technology and Reproductive Politics The Science and Technology Subgroup Introduction: Why the Alton Bill? The Science and Technology Subgroup Section One: Putting the Alton Bill in Context Maureen McNeil Section Two: Abortion Acts: 1803-1967 Wendy Fyfe Section Three: Adversarial Politics The Legal Construction of Abortion Deborah Lynn Steinberg Section Four: Fetal Fascinations: New Dimensions to the Medical- Scientific Construction of Fetal Personhood Sarah Franklin Section Five: The Alton Bill and the Media's 'Consensual' Position Tessa Randles Conclusion: Feminism and Abortion: Pasts, Presents, Futures The Science and Technology Subgroup Section Three: Thatcherism and the Enterprise Culture Making and Not Making the Differences: The Gender Politics of Thatcherism Maureen McNeil Enterprising Women: Images of Success in Thatcher's Britain Janet Newman Enterprise Fictions: Women's Substance Estella Tincknell Redefining Cultural Identities Evelyn Reid Promoting Normality: Section 28 and the Regulation of Sexuality Jackie Stacey Index

Sarah Franklin, Celia Lury; Jackie Stacey

This indispensible collection brings together feminist theory and cultural studies, looking at issues such as pop culture and the media, science and technology, and Thatcherism and the Enterprise Culture.