What are the key issues in cultural politics today? How might we understand contemporary cultural politics in ways that empower people to comprehend and change their social position? Engaging with postmodern theory, Cultural Politics looks at the role of culture in reproducing and contesting social relations of class, gender and race. It focuses on relationships between culture, subjectivity, identity, agency and power. Cultural Politics takes case studies from Britain, North America, Eastern Europe and Australia. It starts with the cultural politics of dominant cultural institutions and looks at responses to them from the margins. It asks what has happened to class-based cultural politics, and examines the cultural politics of feminism and of Black and anti-racist theory and practice.