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Slags on Stage Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture

By Katie Beswick Copyright 2025

186 Pages

by Routledge

186 Pages

by Routledge

186 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

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 issues of class, sex and desire. Broadly, slag is an insult bound up with women’s sexual... Read more

Table of Contents

Affect and Synasthesia: An Introduction

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

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

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Biography

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

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