July 23, 1999

Those Who Disdain Cultural Studies Don't Know What They're Talking About

By RITA FELSKI

Bashing cultural studies has become a popular academic pastime. While the field is often dismissed as mere fashion, now attacks on cultural studies are what have become fashionable. But which cultural studies? The field of study that has appeared in recent polemics is a caricature I do not recognize. The term is thrown around carelessly by both critics and defenders of the field. Furthermore, cultural studies does

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