Adorno, Culture and Feminism

Download or read book Adorno, Culture and Feminism written by Maggie O'Neill and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-03-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adorno, Culture and Feminism brings Adorno's work and feminism together, and explores how feminism can both harness and develop Adorno's ideas. The picture that emerges displays how gendered relations and cultural practices and texts operate today, and the relevance of critical theory for contemporary feminisms. Adorno's work on the scale of inequality and repression in the administered society is presented as matching the feminist understanding of the unequal balance of power between the sexes. This volume shows how Adorno's central concepts - commodification, authenticity, the culture industry, Kulturkritik, negative dialectics, non-identity thinking and authoritarian personality - can be used productively and purposefully in feminist thinking.