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Professor Jackie Stacey

Research Interests

• Professor in Women's Studies and Cultural Studies, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
• Director of Research Student Programme (M Phil, PhD), Institute for Women's Studies
• Course Team Member, MA in Visual Culture, Institute for Cultural Research
• Co-Editor of the film and television studies journal Screen

Key Words:

feminist cultural research, film theory, stardom, visual culture, embodiment, gender and sexuality, autobiography, health cultures.

Teaching: Undergraduate

I usually teach 2 undergraduate courses, "The Representation of Women in Film" and "Contemporary Feminist Thought". The first is a 20 week course on feminist debates about changing representations of gender in the cinema. We look at both popular film and at feminist alternatives within the independent sector. The second course (also 20 weeks) is co-taught with Sarah Franklin (Sociology) and looks at changes in how feminist thought has approached issues such as sexuality, the body, reproduction and representation.

In addition, I teach a couple of sessions on the first year course in Women's Studies "Women, Power and Resistance" which I helped develop as an interdisciplinary introduction to the field of Women's Studies.

Teaching: Postgraduate: MA

I have taught a number of Masters" courses here at Lancaster, including "Theories of Gender Relations", "Women in Film", "Visual Culture" (core course 2, consortially taught with others, co-ordinated by Annette Kuhn in the Institute for Cultural Research) and most recently, with Sarah Franklin (Sociology) and Maureen McNeil (Women's Studies) "The Body in the Visual Cultures of Science and Technology".

Research Student Supervision: M.Phil/Phd

I have supervised research students within the areas of gender, culture and media since 1990. Topics have included:

completed:

• "The Power of Love: Heterosexuality, Gender and Psychoanalysis" (Soc)
• "Interwar Representations of Gender and Britishness in Popular Culture" (WS)
• "The Lesbian Idol: Stardom, Fandom and Popular Culture" (Soc)
• "Gender, National Identity and Irishness" (WS)

in progress:

• "Testimony, Witnessing and Representations of Child Sexual Abuse" (WS)
• "Childhood, Television and Media Knowledges" (Soc)
• "Therapeutic Cultures of the Self" (Soc)
• "Gender, Trauma and National Memory in Taiwan" (WS)
• "New Feminism and Young Women in Britain" (WS)
• "Black Lesbians in Britain" (WS)
• "Learning to Love: Relationship Manuals and Heterosexual Etiquette" (Soc)

Research Interests And Key Publications

I have completed a co-authored book, Global Nature Global Culture: Gender, "Race" and Life Itself in the late Twentieth Century (written with Sarah Franklin and Celia Lury, Sage Publications, 2000). This book makes an intervention into the ongoing debates in the Social Sciences about the changing relationship of nature and culture in the context of a feminist evaluation of "global cultures". As well as each author contributing their own specific case study, we offer a broad-ranging, collectively-written theoretical introduction to these fields.

Our first collaborative venture, Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies (Harper Collins/Routledge), was published in 1991 and was a co-edited collection to which we contributed two introductions and a chapter each.

I have also co-edited a number of other books since 1992, Working Out: New Directions for Women's Studies (with Hilary Hinds and Ann Phoenix, Falmer Press, 1992), a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary collection of new feminist research, and Romance Revisited (Lawrence and Wishart 1995), a volume emerging from a conference of the same name that I organised with Lynne Pearce from the English Department in 1993 here at Lancaster, which attracted about 250 participants. In addition, I co-edited a collection of Screen articles on cinema and television history entitled Screen Histories: A Screen Reader with Annette Kuhn (Oxford University Press, 1999).

I have written myself on a number of subjects within feminist cultural criticism. My first book, Star-Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship (Routledge), appeared in 1994. It is a study of audiences" memories of the female stars of Hollywood cinema in the 1940s and 1950s, based on material collected from over 300 women in Britain. My second book, Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (Routledge) was published in 1997. This interdisciplinary work continues my research in the area of feminist cultural theory, but extends my interest in gender, subjectivity and representation into a new field which is concerned with the body and the changing health cultures of the 1990s.

Most recently I co-edited a book with Sara Ahmed (from Women's Studies) entitled: Thinking Through the Skin (Routledge, 2001), which is a collection of feminist work on bodies, boundaries and identities based on a seminar series here at Lancaster year on "Skin", and a special issue of Cultural Values on 'Testimonial Cultures', January 2001.

I am currently engaged in a research project with Lynne Pearce (English) and Hilary Hinds, (English) called "Imaging Feminism: The Cultural Politics of Representing Gender" . So far we have completed a pilot study of the representation of feminism in the British press 1970 onwards which resulted in an article published in the journal Feminist Media Studies in 2001

Associated Keyword: Sociology

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