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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series List
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Like Clockwork: “Bring the Jobs Back to America”
  9. She’s a Pretty Woman
  10. Nostalgia
  11. A Hollywood Genealogy
  12. Cold Calling Is a Mug’s Game
  13. Wall Street
  14. You Are the Suit You Wear
  15. Raymond Williams: A Brief Word
  16. The Patient Is on Life Support but Is Not Yet Dead
  17. The Baseness of/in the Superstructure
  18. Working Women
  19. Late Industrial Capitalism 1: “Making Things in America”
  20. Late Industrial Capitalism 2: Nostalgia and Grievance
  21. On Morality: A Brief Žižekian Word
  22. It’s Big in Japan
  23. The Boro Aesthetic
  24. Bastard 1
  25. A New Economy of the Prostitute and Its Dangers
  26. My Fair Lady, Beverly Hills Style
  27. All a Pretty Prostitute Needs Is Her Own Dr. Henry Higgins
  28. The Upside of Not Knowing Which Fork to Use
  29. Who’s Driving Edward Lewis?
  30. Bastard 2: The Hostility of the Takeover
  31. Oedipal Drama, Pretty Woman Style
  32. Making and Unmaking in the Oedipal Family Drama
  33. To Make Something
  34. Father’s Son, Mother’s Son: The Enduring Phantasmatic Father
  35. The Žižekian Ethics of Mick Jagger
  36. “It Must Be Very Difficult to Let Go of Something So Beautiful”
  37. To Steal, to Make of Steel
  38. Acknowledgments
  39. Series List Continued (2 of 2)
  40. Author Biography

Contents

  1. Like Clockwork: “Bring the Jobs Back to America”
  2. She’s a Pretty Woman
  3. Nostalgia
  4. A Hollywood Genealogy
  5. Cold Calling Is a Mug’s Game
  6. Wall Street
  7. You Are the Suit You Wear
  8. Raymond Williams: A Brief Word
  9. The Patient Is on Life Support but Is Not Yet Dead
  10. The Baseness of/in the Superstructure
  11. Working Women
  12. Late Industrial Capitalism 1: “Making Things in America”
  13. Late Industrial Capitalism 2: Nostalgia and Grievance
  14. On Morality: A Brief Žižekian Word
  15. It’s Big in Japan
  16. The Boro Aesthetic
  17. Bastard 1
  18. A New Economy of the Prostitute and Its Dangers
  19. My Fair Lady, Beverly Hills Style
  20. All a Pretty Prostitute Needs Is Her Own Dr. Henry Higgins
  21. The Upside of Not Knowing Which Fork to Use
  22. Who’s Driving Edward Lewis?
  23. Bastard 2: The Hostility of the Takeover
  24. Oedipal Drama, Pretty Woman Style
  25. Making and Unmaking in the Oedipal Family Drama
  26. To Make Something
  27. Father’s Son, Mother’s Son: The Enduring Phantasmatic Father
  28. The Žižekian Ethics of Mick Jagger
  29. “It Must Be Very Difficult to Let Go of Something So Beautiful”
  30. To Steal, to Make of Steel
  31. Acknowledgments
  32. Author Biography

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The Prettiest Woman: Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism by Grant Farred is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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