Outlaw Culture
Resisting Representation

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.

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.

'[hooks] made a choice to write for the largest possible audience, to change the greatest number of lives.' Times Higher Education Supplement

 

ISBN	415389585
ISBN13	9780415389587
Publisher	Routledge
Format	Paperback
Publication date	01/05/2006
Pages	320
Weight (grammes)	450.00
Published in	United Kingdom
Height (mm)	198
Width (mm)	129

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.