Katie Beswick

Slags on Stage

Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Slags on Stage weaves cultural analysis with poetry and art criticism to explore the concept of the â slagâ and its place in contemporary British-English culture. The book traces the etymology of the word slag through the 20th and into the 21st century, thinking through the ways â slagâ speaks to issues of class, sex and desire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780367417123
• ISBN-10: 036741712X
• Artikelnr.: 71848547

Autorenporträt

Katie Beswick is a writer and academic. She is Programme Director for the BA Arts Management at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Affect and Synasthesia: An Introduction
Part One. Cultures of slag
1. Class, Sex, Desire
2. You Slag - Vulnerability, Interpellation and Twentieth Century Womanhood
3. The Slag, The Bitch and the Wardrobe - The Slag and Pleasure in Popular
Culture
Part Two. Slaggy art
4. Tracey Emin. Slaggy Endurance in Why I never Became a Dancer
5. Kelly Green. Abject Heterosexuality in CHAV and SLAG
6. Cash Carraway. Mistrust and Difficulty in Skint Estate and Refuge Woman
7. Michaela Coel. Recognition and Class Solidarity in I May Destroy You
and Chewing Gum Dreams
8. Eirini Kartsaki. Weirding the Slag in Herpes
What Women Want: A (kind of) Conclusion