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Other approaches to Cultural Studies, such as feminist cultural studies and later American developments of the field, distance themselves from this view.

They criticize the Marxist assumption of a single, dominant meaning, shared by all, for any cultural product.

The non-Marxist approaches suggest that different ways of consuming cultural artifacts affect the meaning of the product.

This view is best exemplified by the book Doing Cultural Studies: The Case of the Sony Walkman ( by Paul du Gay et al.

), which seeks to challenge the notion that those who produce commodities control the meanings that people attribute to them.

Feminist cultural analyst, theorist and art historian Griselda Pollock contributed to cultural studies from viewpoints of art history and psychoanalysis.

The writer Julia Kristeva was an influential voice in the turn of the century, contributing to Cultural Studies from the field of art and psychoanalytical French feminism.