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Article: The Cultural Studies Reader.
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- Feminist Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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Feminism is, in Meaghan Morris's words, "minimally, a movement of discontent with the everyday and with wide-eyed definitions of the everyday as the 'way things are.'"(1) Minimally, feminism's discontent is gender inequality, but Morris's seemingly vague definition does not so much delineate feminism as mark its turn toward analyzing the cultural dimensions of gender. Although feminists have always been concerned with the problem of patriarchal ideology, the institutionalization of cultural studies has enlarged and deepened that concern. At the center of cultural studies' broadening of feminist scholarship are intellectual currents that transcend national boundaries. ...