Of dinosaurs and divas: is class still relevant to feminist research? Co-Editor of Subjectivity: presentation given as the Opening Lecture at the Centre for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths, University of London, October, 2016 and reproduced as part of the 10th Anniversary issue of the journal Subjectivity
Of dinosaurs and divas: is class still relevant to feminist research? Co-Editor of Subjectivity: presentation given as the Opening Lecture at the Centre for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths, University of London, October, 2016 and reproduced as part of the 10th Anniversary issue of the journal Subjectivity
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恐龙和女主角：阶级仍然与女权主义研究相关吗？
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10.1057/s41286-016-0021-7
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2017
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Walkerdine V
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Walkerdine V
嗯，我有点厌倦了--那里似乎没有太多适合我的东西--你知道这些小镇是怎么回事。一家咖啡馆--星期天关门了。我甚至都没告诉他们我要去。这是肯·罗奇1966年的著名纪录片《凯西回家》的开篇，讲述了一个工人阶级年轻女子离开乡间去伦敦的故事。正如故事情节所揭示的那样，凯西遇到了一个男人，他们结婚了，租了一套公寓，但他在驾驶一辆工作面包车时出了事故，下班了，雇主没有给他钱。这意味着他们无法支付房租。这对夫妇有了孩子，随着电影的发展，他们的住房状况变得越来越糟糕，经历了糟糕的住宿，最终家庭分裂，住在招待所，失去了孩子。电影中提出的问题--无家可归和不安全感--在今天同样令人恐惧地熟悉。
‘Well, I was a bit fed up—there didn’t seem to be much there for me—you know how these little towns are. One coffee bar—it was closed on a Sunday. Didn’t even tell them I was going. I sent ‘em a card when I got down there’.So opens Ken Loach’s famous 1966 docudrama,‘Cathy Come Home’, about a working-class young woman who leaves the provinces to go to London. As the story-line reveals, Cathy meets a man, they get married and rent a flat, but he has an accident while driving a work van and is off work, with no money paid by his employer. This means that they cannot pay their rent. The couple have children and, as the film develops, their housing situation gets worse and worse, through terrible accommodation to the family finally being split up, time in a hostel and losing the children. The issues raised in the film—homelessness and insecurity—are just as terrifyingly familiar today.