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CONTENTS
4 STRUCTURALISM 76
Durkheim and Saussure: anthropology and semiology 77
Structuralism: a general model 79
High Structuralism 83
Post-structuralism 87
Structuralism, post-structuralism and British cultural studies 92
The politics of difference:
post-structuralism, post-colonialism and multiculturalism 97
Post-structuralism and postmodernism 103
5 FEMINISM 107
From the first to the second wave 107
Types of feminism 110
Anglo-American feminism 112
Socialist feminism 115
French feminisms 118
Feminism and cultural politics 122
Feminism and post-structuralism 124
Feminism and postmodernism 129
6 POSTMODERNISM 135
Postmodernism and Late Capitalism 135
Transgression, marginality and post-imperialism 138
Modernism, postmodernism and the popular 141
Apocalyptic hedonism and the decline of
the legislative intellectual 145
The politics of postmodernism 149
Towards 2000 153
Notes 157
Further reading 179
Index 186
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