TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pini,Maria
TI  - Club cultures and female subjectivity: the move from home to house 
SN  - 0333946065
AV  - HQ1154. P58 2001
U1  - 305.42 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Discotheques
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Rave culture
KW  - Femininity
KW  - Sex role
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202) and index; Pt. I; Who Knows?; 1; Invisible Women in Increasingly Visible Club Cultures; 2; Situating Voices: towards a Post-Foundational Study of 'Women's Experiences --; Pt. II; From Bedroom Culture to Dance Cultures --; Introduction: Down to Specifics: Study Design, Method and Presentation; 3; Moving Homes: Femininity under Reconstruction; 4; Cyborgs, Nomads and the Raving Feminine; 5; Peak Practices: the Production and Regulation of Ecstatic Bodies; Conclusions: 'Losing It': Dance Cultures and New Modes of Femininity
N2  - "This work explores the significance which contemporary club cultures can have for women at a time when femininity is undergoing radical reconstruction. The book focuses upon the experiential accounts given by a range of 'raving' and clubbing women and illustrates how new (and, in some respects, more appropriate to our times) fictions of femininity are generated within these accounts. Club cultures can, it is argued, come to provide important sites for the exploration of new ways of being women-in-culture. Focus upon these more subjective and experiential aspects reveals that today's dance cultures have much to offer women, and a lot more to say about femininity than is usually acknowledged. This suggests the limitations of much contemporary club culture criticism which concludes that because men tend to dominate at the levels of production and organisation, today's club cultures signal a sexual-political step backwards."--BOOK JACKET
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