...at the gate were also women, knocking at the gate of a male-dominated culture. It is indeed striking to observe how the political, psychological, and aesthetic...clearly remains the privileged realm of male activities. To be sure, a number of critics have since abandoned the notion of mass culture in order to "exclude...

...at the gate were also women, knocking at the gate of a male-dominated culture. It is indeed striking to observe how the political, psychological, and aesthetic...modern, clearly remains the privileged realm of male acti vines.21 These remarks are enormously suggestive when applied to Eliot's poetry and prose. They...

...gate,' to quote Hall . . . the masses knocking at the gate were also women ... It is indeed striking to observe how the political, psychological, and aesthetic...modern, clearly remains the privileged realm of male activities.1 The Decline of the Past Perhaps many of the changes we are seeing in contemporary society...

...the gate were also women ... It is indeed striking to observe how the political, psychological,'and aesthetic discourse around the turn of the century...clearly remains the privileged realm of male activities. 3 The Decline of the Past Perhaps many of the changes we are seeing in contemporary society and culture...

...masses ktiocking at the gate were also women ... It is indeed striking to observe how the polincal, psychological, and aesthetic discourse around the...obsessively genders mass culture and the masses as femintne, while high culture, whether traditional or modem, clearly remains the privileged realm of...

...culture with the feminine has been discussed by Andreas Huyssen who notes that: "It is indeed striking to observe how the political, psychological, and aesthetic...clearly remains the privileged realm of male activities" (Huyssen 1986: 47).6 The association of mass culture with the feminine and high culture with the masculine...

...the masses as ultimately deriving from reactions to the feminine because, as Andreas Huyssen argues, "political, psychological, and aesthetic discourse...obsessively genders mass culture and the masses as feminine."43 Klaus Theweleit demonstrates in his massive work, Male Fantasies, that the strongest imagery...

...Huyssen (1986) states, "It is indeed striking to observe how the political, psychological, and aesthrtic discourse around the turn of the century consistently...clearly remains the privileged realm of male activities" (p. 191). The dichotomy of an inferior and feminine mass culture in contrast to a superior and masculine...

...at the gate were also women, knocking at the gate of a male-dominated culture. It is indeed striking to observe how the political, psychological, and aesthetic...century consistently and obsessively genders mass cultures and the masses as feminine, while high culture, whether traditional or modern, clearly remains...

...discussions of culture. Mass culture became identified as feminine and inferior. As Andreas Huyssen observes, "The political, psychological, and aesthetic discourse...while high culture, whether traditional or modern, remains the privileged realm of male activities." Most of the institutions of high culture did, indeed,...