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An introduction to the ways in which women have been represented in art, writing and popular culture, and the ways in which women have represented themselves. It explores the use of language and images, the nature of ideology and the relationships between gender and genre

Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-347) and index

Introduction: on imagining women -- Themes and issues: gender, genre, and representation. Making things mean: cultural representation in objects / Catherine King -- Analyzing representations / Richard Allen -- Gender and genre / Dinah Birch -- Ways of speaking / Joan Swann -- Literary representations: self as subject. The feminist critical revolution / Elaine Showalter -- Supply and demand: women's short stories / Lizbeth Goodman -- Towards a better way of being: feminist science fiction / Frances Bonner -- A wild surmise: motherhood and poetry / Alicia Ostriker -- 'Moment of faith': worksheets / Carol Rumens -- Criticism as autobiography / Nicole Ward Jouve -- Our life: working-class women's autobiography in Britain / Wendy Webster -- Visual images: taking the mastery out of art. The politics of representation: a democracy of the gaze / Catherine King -- Object into subject: some thoughts on the work of black women artists / Michelle Cliff -- Beyond the mirror: women's self portraits / Felicity Edholm -- Feminist arts / Catherine King -- Negotiating meanings from popular television and film. Pleasurable negotiations / Christine Gledhill -- She's gotta have it: the representation of black female sexuality on film / Felly Nkweto Simmonds -- A women's space: women and soap opera / Christine Geraghty -- Confession time: women and game shows / Frances Bonner -- Pornography and representation. Lace: pornography for women? / Avis Lewallen -- Obscenity and censorship / Suzanne Kappeler -- Pornography and black women's bodies / Patricia Hill Collins -- Who watches the watchwomen?: feminists against censorship / Gillian Rodgerson and Linda Semple -- The pornography problem / Lizbeth Goodman -- Comic subversions. Gender and humour / Lizbeth Goodman -- Comic subversions: comedy as strategy in feminist theatre / Lizbeth Goodman -- Conclusion: in search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker