A cultural studies reader Book

	Acknowledgements
	General introduction	1
1	The nineteenth century	11
	Matthew Arnold - Sweetness and light	19
	Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - selections	33
	Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony - selections	41
	Frederick Douglass - Hope for the nation	47
	Frederick Jackson Turner - The significance of the frontier in American history	58
2	The impact of European theory	79
	Walter Benjamin, from 'The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction', and Theodor Adorno, 'Letter to Walter Benjamin'	88
	Antonio Gramsci - Intellectuals	97
	Claude Levi-Strauss - A writing lesson	105
	Jacques Derrida, from 'The violence of the letter'	115
	Jacques Lacan - The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I	133
	Michel Foucault - We 'other Victorians'	140
3	Cultural studies in Britain	147
	Richard Hoggart - The 'real' world of people: illustrations from popular art - Peg's Paper	154
	Raymond Williams - Conclusion to Culture and Society	163
	E. P. Thompson, Review of Raymond Williams's The Long Revolution	175
	Germaine Greer - The stereotype	186
	Stuart Hall - Cultural studies: two paradigms	194
4	Cultural studies in America	207
	Henry Nash Smith - The myth of the garden and Turner's frontier hypothesis	215
	Marshall McLuhan - The medium is the message	225
	Clifford Geertz - Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture	236
	James Clifford - On ethnographic authority	257
	Mary Ellmann - Feminine stereotypes	284
5	Media studies	295
	Richard Ohmann - Doublespeak and ideology in ads: a kit for teachers	303
	Jean Seaton - The media and the constitution	316
	Laura Mulvey - Visual pleasure and narrative cinema	321
	Janice Radway - Interpretive communities and variable literacies: the functions of romance reading	333
	Simon Frith - The good, the bad, and the indifferent: defending popular culture from the populists	351
	Lawrence Grossberg - MTV: swinging on the (postmodern) star	367
6	Race studies	381
	Paula Gunn Allen - How the West was really won	389
	Gloria Anzaldua - How to tame a wild tongue	402
	Cornell West - Minority discourse and the pitfalls of canon formation	412
	Paul Gilroy - Cruciality and the frog's perspective: an agenda of difficulties for the black arts movement in Britain	420
	Seamus Deanee - The Field Day enterprise	431
	Abdul R. JanMohamed - Worldliness-without-world, homelessness-as-home: toward a definition of the specular border intellectual	441
	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - The politics of translation	463
7	Gender studies	483
	Sherry B. Ortner - Is female to male as nature is to culture?	491
	Penelope Brown and Ludmilla Jordanova - Oppressive dichotomies: the nature/culture debate	509
	Jonathan Dollimore - Homophobia and sexual difference	519
	Simon Watney - The banality of gender	527
	Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - Across gender, across sexuality: Willa Cather and others	536
	Ann duCille - Dyes and dolls: multicultural Barbie and the merchandizing of difference	550
8	Voice-overs: Definitions and debates	569
	Richard Johnson - What is cultural studies anyway?	574
	Fredric Jameson - -On 'cultural studies'	613
	Henry Giroux, David Shumway, Paul Smith, and James Sosnoski - The need for cultural studies: resisting intellectuals and oppositional public spheres	646
	Stuart Hall - interviewed by Roger Bromley	659
	J. Hillis Miller - interviewed by Gita Rajah and Jessica Munns	674