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This title looks at how advertising takes advantage of female psychology and discusses the fitness boom, fashion, current beauty standards, family photographs, and the relationship between men and women.
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In Female Desires, Rosalind Coward follows the lure of pleasure across a multitude of different cultural paths--from food to family snapshots, from popular songs to men's bodies--to discover how women's wants are manufactured, manipulated, stimulated, sought, bought, packaged and consumed in a book destined to stand beside such classics as Fat is a Feminist Issue.
What do women want? This brilliantly provocative look at female pleasure--the things women enjoy or are meant to enjoy but don't--adds a startling new dimension to the feminist view of the way society represents--and misrepresents--female pleasure. Women's most intimate wants are spread before us by sales promoters on television, on magazine covers, in shop windows; is this, in fact, the mirror of female desire catered to by the pleasure industry to offer the woman consumer a new body, a new house, a new outfit, a new relationship?
"A book which is fun, wise and very thought-provoking.... A disturbing, subversive text--a feminist Mythologies (Coward's debt to Roland Barthes is obvious) with the same combination of political, polemical and theoretical intent as that great book. Coward's own theoretical instruments are semiology, psychoanalysis and class analysis--but she wields them with the lightness of touch aimed at the popular audience."--Barbara Taylor, New Statesman
"Vigorous, intelligent, funny essays on women and pleasure--an accessible instruction manual of how to differentiate between knowing what one likes and liking what one knows."--Angela Carter
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- PublisherRandom House USA Inc
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0394545915
- ISBN 13 9780394545912
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages261
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Taped Dustjacket. Later Edition. 253pp. What do women want? This is a look at female pleasure, the things women enjoy, a description of how womens wants are manufactures, manipulated, stimulated, sought, bought, packaged, and consumed. Front free endpaper torn out with card pocket. Library marking. Clean text. Good. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 002280
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