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Cool Men & The Second Sex
Paperback Edition: 1/2003
Pose of supreme indifference, eyes hidden behind shades, habits of transgression and irreverence - the allure of coolness is something we know about from high school and think about through a store of images from books, music, television and movies. This book connects a particular
notion of coolness with a troubling phenomenon: more than 30 years after the dawn of the second-wave women's movement, after decades of intensive feminist scholarship in almost every field, and the emergence of a body of feminist film theory now central to film studies, there is still not only a predictable and well-documented conservative backlash against feminism, but also a lingering, systematic masculinism among some of the best-known, left-leaning, evidently "cool" creators of culture in academia and film.Taking the measure of such celebrity professors as Edward Said, Andrew Ross and Henry Louis Gates Jr, along with "bad boy" filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, Brian de Palma and Spike Lee, Susan Fraiman argues that despite their hipness - or because of it - these men consistently relegate women to the margins and feel free to ignore the insights of feminist scholars.
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Pages : 212
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Subjects: Non-fiction, Social Sciences, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Gender Groups, Gender Studies: Men