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Shopping for Pleasure- John Fiske
This article exams how women are given power in stores through shopping. Fiske recognizes this power given to women through shopping is an act of cultural resistance. Due to our patriarchal society women are not given equal power compared to men, but when it comes to shopping they "take" power unknowingly. The author makes a key point that hegemony can "never finally relax in victory" dues to resistances. When women are out shopping they are resisting patriarchy and fighting against the notion that women stay at home, cook, clean, and take cares of the children. Producers have even taken notice to this power than women receive from shopping and capitalize off of it. For example, the price is right extorts women's knowledge of shopping and valued items for entertainment.
The Art of Necessity: The subversive imagination of anti-road protest and reclaim the streets- John Jordan
Jordan discusses the theory that "DIY protests" are powerful because they embody and are reliant on creativity based on socially transformative power. When polices and petitions are brought down the fact that their is a creative stand point allows for new political ideologies to be created. When new creative politics are created it may be seen as an act of cultural resistance, straying from he typical right or left wing ideologies.
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