Visceral cosmopolitanism : : gender, culture and the normalisation of difference / / Mica Nava.

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford ;, New York : : Berg,, 2007.
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Cosmopolitanism, everyday culture and structures of feeling : the intellectual framework of the book
  • 2. The allure of difference: Selfridges, the Russian ballet and the tango
  • 3. 'The big shop controversy': ideological communities and the Chesterton-Selfridge dispute
  • 4. The unconscious and others: inclusivity, Jews and the eroticisation of difference
  • 5. White women and black men : the Negro as signifier of modernity in wartime Britain
  • 6. Thinking internationally, thinking sexually: race in postwar fiction, film and social science
  • 7. Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed: romance, race and the reconfiguration of the nation
  • 8. A love song to our mongrel selves: cosmopolitan habitus and the ordinariness of difference.