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The Desirable Body: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption
- J. Stratton
- Art
- 1996
"Now available for the first time in paperback, Jon Stratton's "The Desirable Body" lays a solid foundation for cultural and gender studies of the body by explicating the links, both historical and…
Not just another multicultural story
- J. Stratton
- History
- 1 January 2000
It would be usual, these days, to argue that the experience of British migrants in Australia is the norm against which the reception of non-British migrants has always been articulated. I will argue…
What is ‘Popular Music’?
- J. Stratton
- Sociology
- 1 May 1983
The object of this paper is to examine the way in w^ch what is considered to be popular music is constructed through the interlocking effects of two structures which I here call the economic and the…
Between Two Worlds: Art and Commercialism in the Record Industry
- J. Stratton
- Sociology
- 1 May 1982
This paper is concerned with the popular music press.* In particular it is an analysis of some of the premises which writers in the music press take for granted but which inform their imderstanding…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- J. Stratton
- Sociology
- 1 May 2005
This article examines the whiteness in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The author argues that the show’s overwhelming whiteness is a product of a generalized white anxiety about the…
Two Rescues, One History: Everyday Racism in Australia
- J. Stratton
- Political Science
- 1 November 2006
On the same day, at different ends of Australia, two extraordinary rescues of men from extreme hardship took place. The two miners, both white and of Anglo-Celtic origin, were fêted, appeared on…
The difference of Perth music: A scene in cultural and historical context
- J. Stratton
- Sociology
- 1 October 2008
In the present article, I think about the importance of Perth's culture as a crucial context in which the popular music of Perth has developed. In the case examined in the present article, Perth…
Bodgies and Widgies — youth cultures in the 1950s∗
- J. Stratton
- History
- 1 November 1984
Whiteness, Morality and Christianity in Australia
- J. Stratton
- Political Science
- 2 January 2016
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between Christianity and claims about Australian culture. In modernity Christianity was reconstructed as fundamentally European and white. This article…
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