Club Cultures and Female Subjectivity the Move from Home to House : The Move from Home to House

Annotation This book explores the significance which contemporary club cultures can come to have for women living through a time of radical sexual-political change. The book focuses upon the experiential accounts of different "raving" and clubbing women by illustrating how new, and more appropriate, fictions of femininity are generated within these accounts. Focus upon these aspects reveals the limitations of reading today's club cultures as indicators of a sexual-political regression. 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.--jacket. Pt. I. Who Knows? -- 1. Invisible Women In Increasingly Visible Club Cultures -- 2. Situating Voices: Towards A Post-foundational Study Of 'women's Experiences -- Pt. Ii. From Bedroom Culture To Dance Cultures -- Introduction: Down To Specifics: Study Design, Method And Presentation -- 3. Moving Homes: Femininity Under Reconstruction -- 4. Cyborgs, Nomads And The Raving Feminine -- 5. Peak Practices: The Production And Regulation Of Ecstatic Bodies -- Conclusions: 'losing It': Dance Cultures And New Modes Of Femininity. Maria Pini. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 197-202) And Index. "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."--BOOK JACKET. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-19 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Invisible Women in Increasingly Visible Club Cultures....Pages 23-58 Situating Voices: towards a Post-Foundational Study of ‘Women’s Experiences’....Pages 59-79 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Introduction: Down to Specifics: Study Design, Method and Presentation....Pages 83-91 Moving Homes: Femininity under Reconstruction....Pages 93-154 Cyborgs, Nomads and the Raving Feminine....Pages 155-171 Peak Practices: the Production and Regulation of Ecstatic Bodies....Pages 173-187 Conclusions: ‘Losing It’: Dance Cultures and New Modes of Femininity....Pages 189-195 Back Matter....Pages 197-204