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The Prettiest Woman: Acknowledgments

The Prettiest Woman
Acknowledgments

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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

Acknowledgments

My ability to shape this essay owes everything to Dr. Leah Pennywark. She helped me think the essay and then find out how it was that the essay needed to be written. And then, as I approached the end of the process, she pointed out, correctly, what it was the essay needed. Once more, Dr. Pennywark, my thanks.

As has become habitual for me now, I would like, one more time, to thank the finest minds in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: “Monsignor” Robert Caserio and Jeff Nealon. Not sure how much longer I can ask you to “put it on my tab.” But ask I will. Thanks.

My friend and colleague Levon Barseghyan is an economist possessed of an acute cultural and political sensibility. Thanks for pointing me in the direction in which I needed to go.

Finally, this essay is dedicated to my uncles, maternal, Godfrey, and paternal, James and W. Arthur. For what it is and how it is they gave. Each distinct. Uncle James, who endured longest . . .

—Grant Farred, Ithaca, 2023

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