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

Affect and Synasthesia: An Introduction

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Part One. Cultures of slag

1. Class, Sex, Desire????

2. You Slag  Vulnerability, Interpellation and Twentieth Century Womanhood

3. The Slag, The Bitch and the Wardrobe  The Slag and Pleasure in Popular Culture

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Part Two. Slaggy art

4. Tracey Emin. Slaggy Endurance in Why I never Became a Dancer

5. Kelly Green. Abject Heterosexuality in CHAV and SLAG

6. Cash Carraway. Mistrust and Difficulty in Skint Estate and Refuge Woman

7. Michaela Coel. Recognition and Class Solidarity in I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum Dreams

8. Eirini Kartsaki. Weirding the Slag in Herpes

What Women Want: A (kind of) Conclusion

Slags on Stage weaves cultural analysis with poetry and art criticism to explore the concept of the slag and its place in contemporary British-English culture. The book traces the etymology of the word slag through the?20th and into the?21st century, thinking through the ways slag speaks to issues of class, sex and desire.

Katie Beswick is a writer and academic. She is Programme Director for the BA Arts Management at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

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 l£¼