Professor Frances E. Mascia-Lees teaches anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College, and is the author of Toward a Model of Women's Status and coauthor of Gender and Anthropology. Patricia Sharpe is Dean of Academic Affairs at Simon's Rock College of Bard, and along with Frances E. Mascia-Lees, coedited Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text, also published by SUNY Press.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. On Shaky Ground: Shifting Terrain and the Predicaments of Postfeminism Part I: Shifting Stance: Strategic (Re)Positioning 2. The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective 3. The Anthropological Unconscious Part II: Taking a Seat at the Movies: Assessing Theories of Representation and Identification 4. An Oblique Look: Theorizing the "Other" as Spectator 5. Courting the Nineteenth Century: Object, Image, and Fetishistic Desire 6. Self-Help Hollywood Style: Masculinity, Masochism, and Identification with the Child Within 7. Piano Lessons: Jane Campion as (Counter)EthnographerPart III: On Display: Style and (Ad)dress in Consumer Culture 8. The Female Body in Postmodern Consumer Culture: Subjection and Agency at the Mall 9. Arts and Crafts Mass Marketed Part IV: Taking a Stand: Subjects and (Dis)courses in the Academy 10. Body as Text: Young Women's Negotiations of Subjectivity 11. Interpreting Charges of Sexual Harassment: Competing Discourses and Claims Conclusion 12. Locked In, Locked Out, or Locked Up? Notes References Index

"Mascia-Lees and Sharpe are keen observers of contemporary culture, scholars who cull evidence carefully to reach their conclusions. What's more, they combine careful scholarship with representational inventiveness. They take creative risks with voice, structure, and subject. I'm sure their various takes on the post-feminist world will please many, anger some, and stimulate all." — Paul Stoller, author of Jaguar: A Story of Africans in America