Club Cultures and Female Subjectivity

This book explores the significance which contemporary club cultures can come to have for women living through a time of radical sexual-political change. The book focuses upon the experiential accounts of different "raving" and clubbing women by illustrating how new, and more appropriate, fictions of femininity are generated within these accounts. Focus upon these aspects reveals the limitations of reading today's club cultures as indicators of a sexual-political regression.

About the Author(s)

Maria Pini

Maria Pini is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Western Sydney.

Table of Contents

Part I: Who Knows * Invisible Women in Increasingly Visible Club Cultures * Situation Voices: Towards a Post-Foundational Study of "Women's Experiences" * Part II: From Bedroom Culture to Dance Cultures * Down to Specifics: Study Design, Method and Presentation * Moving Homes: Femininity under Reconstruction * Cyborgs, Nomads and the Raving Feminine * Peak Practices: the Production and Regulation of Ecstatic Bodies * Conclusions "Losing It": Dance Cultures and Changing Femininities