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Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture

Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture

Beswick, Katie

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TelevisionGeneral SociologyTheater History

ISBN10: 036741712X
ISBN13: 9780367417123
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 31 2025
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Slags on Stage weaves cultural analysis with poetry and art criticism to explore the concept of the 'slag' and its place in contemporary British culture.

The book traces the etymology of the word slag through the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, thinking through the ways 'slag' speaks to issues of class, sex and desire. Broadly, slag is an insult bound up with women's sexual reputations - but beyond this it is a 'key' word that shapes the ways we debate and understand what it means to be a woman. For women who came of age in the United Kingdom in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries 'slag' produces complex feelings and has influenced how we have come to know ourselves and understand our sexual and quotidian desires. This book explores the terrain of slag and includes analyses of artworks by artists who have invoked the slag in their practice, including Tracey Emin, Cash Carraway and Michaela Coel. Covering the cultural politics of clothing, motherhood, television representations, sexual assault, sex work and desire, Slags on Stage asks: what role does the 'slag' play in British culture? Who is she for? And how have women used sex and sexuality to have their own say in cultures that want to control them?

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