ABSTRACT
Tracing the strands of this involvement has raised ideas and problems for me which I take to be crucial for my own feminist understanding of the world. Among these are the relationship between subjective and objective accounts of reality and the existence of a powerful feminist orthodoxy which, paradoxically, accepts objective and “male” accounts of the world at the expense of personal and subjective experiences. And so although I examine this specifically in relation to competing constructions of “who” and “what” “Elvis” and “the Elvis phenomenon” was, the same kinds of things can (and should) be said about other features of many feminists’ experience. These issues, clearly, are of interest to us all, including those of us who have never even heard of Elvis Presley.
