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Club Cultures and Female Subjectivity

The Move from Home to House

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Maria Pini

    1. Centre for Critical Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Kingswood, Australia

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Maria Pini
      Pages 1-19

  4. From Bedroom Culture to Dance Cultures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Introduction: Down to Specifics: Study Design, Method and Presentation

      • Maria Pini
      Pages 83-91

    3. Moving Homes: Femininity under Reconstruction

      • Maria Pini
      Pages 93-154

    4. Cyborgs, Nomads and the Raving Feminine

      • Maria Pini
      Pages 155-171

    5. Peak Practices: the Production and Regulation of Ecstatic Bodies

      • Maria Pini
      Pages 173-187

  5. Conclusions: ‘Losing It’: Dance Cultures and New Modes of Femininity

    1. Conclusions: ‘Losing It’: Dance Cultures and New Modes of Femininity

      • Maria Pini
      Pages 189-195

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 197-204
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Critical Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Kingswood, Australia

    Maria Pini

About the author

MARIA PINI is post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is author of a number of published articles on women and dance cultures.

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