The relationship between bodies and images has long occupied feminism. The becoming of bodies explores the way in which this relationship has primarily been approached and offers an alternative framework for analysis. Thinking through her original empirical research with teenage girls, involving focus groups, individual interviews and image-making sessions, Coleman moves from a consideration of media images, the focus of much feminist research, to examine images more widely; as mirrors, photographs, glimpses, comments, imagination. Addressing issues of appearance and selfhood, sex and...
The relationship between bodies and images has long occupied feminism. The becoming of bodies explores the way in which this relationship has primaril...
Hope is central to marginal politics which speak of desires for equality or simply for a better life. Feminism might be characterised as a politics of hope, a movement underpinned by a utopian drive for equality. This version of hope has been used, for example in Barack Obama's phrase 'the audacity of hope' - a mobilisation of an affirmative politics which nevertheless implies that we are living in hopeless times. Similiarly, in recent years, feminism has seen the production of a prevailing mood of hopelessness around a generational model of progress, which is widely imagined to have...
Hope is central to marginal politics which speak of desires for equality or simply for a better life. Feminism might be characterised as a politics of...
Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. This title examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time.
Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. This ti...
The relationship between bodies and images has long occupied feminism. The becoming of bodies, available for the first time in paperback, explores the way in which this relationship has primarily been approached and offers an alternative framework for analysis. Thinking through her original empirical research with teenage girls, involving focus groups, individual interviews and image-making sessions, Coleman moves from a consideration of media images, the focus of much feminist research, to examine images more widely; as mirrors, photographs, glimpses, comments, imagination. Addressing issues...
The relationship between bodies and images has long occupied feminism. The becoming of bodies, available for the first time in paperback, explores the...
