Bøker av Vikki Bell

Vikki Bell explores the ways in which oppression must be understood outside feminist boundaries and why the history of 'race' came to be thought of as parallel to the history of feminism.

Winner of British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 1993. Examines the taboo of incest from historical and sociological perspectives. Raises important questions on the criminalization of incest.

Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from textual nature of the world to how social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. This book explores the development and direction of notion of performativity. It explores ways of thinking political imaginations and possibilities.