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The authors discuss Stuart Hall's lifelong critical engagement with Marxism - though his was a complex, subtle, agonistic, Marxism, where nothing is taken for granted. This engagement continued even as postcoloniality, ethnicity, race and identity steadily came to the centre of Hall's
attention, constituting ways of thinking that in some ways represented a departure. Hall can be seen as a mediator, both within Marxism - for example structuralism versus culturalism - and between Marxism and other discourses, finding areas in common as well as difference, respecting
aspects of a position without endorsing whole positions; and in so doing transforming the problem under consideration. He is also discussed as an organic intellectual, who - though with no assumption of a shared class or shared party - sought to create a collective self-consciousness,
a coalition, that could offer an effective challenge to the state. The concept of conjuncture is an important part of these ideas. These aspects of Hall's work are discussed further in relation to racialisation and racism, where Hall is seen as committed to both analytic and practical observation,
and to humanism as well as Marxism: the people at the centre of the analysis are agents not categories. Hall was not aiming to bring things to a rounded, validity-seeking coherence, but to always leave some strands open: his thinking is constitutively open. At the same time his underlying,
very simple, message is that, in some way or another, the many issues we face are all connected, and we should never give up the integrative pluralism of political thinking. The great danger is fragmented pluralism, where the politics of difference, wherever the differences are, leads
to political de-alignment rather than coalitional unity.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Feminist Politics and Postfeminist Culture -- 1. Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime -- 2. Mass Magazine Cover Girls: Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and Postfeminism's Daughters -- 3. Living a Charmed Life: The Magic of Postfeminist Sisterhood -- 4. "I Hate My Job, I Hate Everybody Here": Adultery, Boredom, and the "Working Girl" in Twenty-First-Century American Cinema -- 5. Remapping the Resonances of Riot Grrrl: Feminisms, Postfeminisms, and "Processes" of Punk -- 6. Killing Bill: Rethinking Feminism and Film Violence -- 7. Queer Eye for the Straight Guise: Camp, Postfeminism, and the Fab Five's Makeovers of Masculinity -- 8. What's Your Flava? Race and Postfeminism in Media Culture -- 9. The Fashion Police: Governing the Self in What Not to Wear -- 10. Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African American Women in Postfeminist and Post-Civil-Rights Popular Culture -- 11. Subjects of Rejuvenation: Aging in Postfeminist Culture 277 Sadie Wearing -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Bergmann, C.: Gleichstellungspolitik - weiterhin aktuell, S. 665-668; Bruns, G.: Was will der Feminismus heute? S. 669-677; Nickel, H.: Weniger Chancen - weniger Zukunft? Frauen in der Erwerbsgesellschaft, S. 678-688; Hornung, U.: Geschlechterdemokratie in neoliberaler Zeit. Feministische Politik- und Partizipationskonzepte und sozio-ökonomischer Wandel - ein Anachronismus? S. 689-697; McRobbie, A.: Brave Mädchen, böse Mädchen? S. 698-708; Braun, C. v.: Frauen im Spiegel der Medien - eine historische Einordnung, S. 709-714; Meier, S.: Fraueninteressen in der neuen Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, S. 715-722; Ohme-Reinicke, A.: "Du musst kein Scheich sein zum Reich-Sein". Über Konditionierung in der technischen Zivilisation, S. 723-727

Critical Theory at a Crossroads presents conversations with prominent theorists about the crises that have marked the past years and the use of the term "crisis" in political discourse. They offer their views on contemporary challenges and how we might address them, candidly discussing the alternatives that new social movements have offered

Stuart Hall: Conversations, Projects and Legacies examines the career of the cultural studies pioneer, interrogating his influence and revealing lesser-known facets of his work. This collection of essays and photographs evaluates the legacies of his particular brand of cultural studies and demonstrates how other scholars and activists have utilised his thinking in their own research.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I DANCE AND CULTURAL STUDIES -- 1 Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies -- 2 Cultural Studies and Dance History -- II SOCIAL LIVES, SOCIAL BODIES -- 3 Reinstating Corporeality: Feminism and Body Politics -- 4 "The Story Is Told as a History of the Body": Strategies of Mimesis in the Work of Irigaray and Bausch -- 5 Classical Ballet: A Discourse of Difference -- 6 Ballet as Ideology: Giselle, Act 2 -- 7 Dancing the Orient for England: Maud Allan's The Vtsion of Salome -- 8 The Female Dancer and the Male Gaze: Feminist Critiques of Early Modern Dance -- 9 Some Thoughts on Choreographing History -- 10 Auto-Body Stories: Blondell Cummings and Autobiography in Dance -- 11 Dance Narratives and Fantasies of Achievement -- III EXPANDING AGENDAS FOR CRITICAL THINKING -- 12 Dancing Bodies -- 13 Spectacle and Dancing Bodies That Matter: Or, HIt Don't Fit, Don't Force It -- 14 Sense, Meaning, and Perception in Three Dance Cultures -- 15 Some Notes on Yvonne Rainer, Modernism, Politics, Emotion, Performance, and the Aftermath -- 16 Homogenized Ballerinas -- 17 Dance Ethnography and the Limits of Representation -- Vodou, Nationalism, and Performance: The Staging of Folklore in Mid-Twentieth-Century Haiti -- Notes on Contributors -- Permissions -- Index