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figuring female transgression in modern Japanese culture
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Marran, Christine
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- O AZ 1A 2007
- Thesaurus
- kranten, populaire cultuur, media, seksualiteit, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, Japan
- Description
- Based on the lives and crimes of twenty real women, dokufu (poison women) narratives emerged as a powerful presence in Japan during the 1870s. During this time, as the nation moved from feudalism to oligarchic government, such accounts articulated the politics and position of underclass women, sexual morality, and female suffrage. Over the next century, the figure of the oversexed female criminal, usually guilty of robbery or murder, became ubiquitous in modern Japanese culture. In Poison Woman, Marran investigates this powerful icon, its shifting meanings, and its influence on defining women’s sexuality and place in Japan. She begins by considering Meiji gesaku literature, in which female criminality was often medically defined and marginalized as abnormal. She describes the small newspapers (koshinbun) that originally reported on poison women, establishing journalistic and legal conventions for future fiction about them. She examines zange, or confessional narratives, of female and male ex-convicts from the turn of the century, then reveals how medical and psychoanalytical literature of the 1920s and 1930s offered contradictory explanations of the female criminal as an everywoman or a historical victim of social circumstances and the press. She concludes by exploring postwar pulp fiction (kasutori), film and underground theater of the 1970s, and the feminist writer Tomioka Taeko’s take on the transgressive woman.
gothic rewriting from the eighteenth century until the present day
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Elferen, Isabella van > [ed]
- Contributor
- Lima, Maria Antonia
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2007 - A
- Thesaurus
- popmuziek, films, media, gothic novels, horror, etniciteit, seksualiteit, 18e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to an aspect of Gothic texts, films, and music: that of rewriting. From the eighteenth-century Gothic novel to present-day vampire films and Goth music, the genre is characterised by its nostalgic reflection on past worlds, narratives, and identities. Gothic nostalgia is often accompanied by a transgressive drive, resulting in perversions of the rewritten past—the modern vampire is no longer embodied evil but an attractive dandy, while Goth subcultures reflect on Victorian aesthetics but pervert them by adding fetishist elements.This book brings together the early Gothic novel, present-day female and black Gothic literature, Goth subculture and music, and the imagery of horror films and comic books, thus broadening the definition of ‘Gothic’ from a literary genre to a gesture of pervasive cultural criticism.
a historical journey through American media
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Semonche, John E.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- media, seksualiteit, internet, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- John Semonche surveys censorship for reasons of sex from the nineteenth century up until the present. He covers the various forms of American media--books and periodicals, pictorial art, motion pictures, music and dance, and radio, television, and the Internet. Despite the varieties of censorship, running from self-censorship to government bans, a common story is told. In each of the areas, Semonche explains via abundant examples how and why censorship took place. He also details how the cultural territory contested by those advocating and opposing censorship diminished over the course of the last two centuries. In an era in which sexual images are pervasive and the need for reliable information about sex and sexuality is growing, he questions the remaining rationales for censorship and the justification for placing obscenity outside the protection of the U.S. Constitution.
women and the law in twentieth-century literature
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Macpherson, Heidi Slettedahl
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2007
- Thesaurus
- wetgeving, vrouwbeelden, daders, slachtoffers, media, literatuur, films, romans, toneel, literaire analyse, Amerikaans, Canadees, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author explores the representation of women, fictional and historical, in conflict with the law. She focuses on the judicial system and the staging of women’s guilt, examining both the female suspect and the female victim in a wide variety of media, including novels like Toni Morrison’s 'Beloved' and Margaret Atwood’s 'Alias Grace', theatrical plays, movies such as 'I Want to live!' and 'Legally blonde', and the television series 'Ally McBeal'.
rescuing our daughters from marketers' schemes
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lamb, Sharon
- Creator
- Brown, Lyn Mikel
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 1E 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- meisjes, media, seksualiteit, kleding, opvoeding, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The stereotype-laden message, delivered through clothes, music, books, and TV, is essentially a continuous plea for girls to put their energies into beauty products, shopping, fashion, and boys. This constant marketing, cheapening of relationships, absence of good women role models, and stereotyping and sexualization of girls is something that parents need to first understand before they can take action.The authors tell parents how to understand these influences, give them guidance on how to talk to their daughters about these negative images, and provide the tools to help girls make positive choices about the way they are in the world.
visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- kunsten, media, films, schrijvers, etniciteit, vrouwelijkheid, zwarte vrouwen, witte vrouwen, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to the New Negro Movement. Due to the mulatta's frequent ability to pass for white, she represented a variety of contradictory meanings that often transcended racial, class, and gender boundaries. Portraits of the New Negro Woman investigates the visual and literary images of black femininity that occurred between the two world wars. Sherrard-Johnson traces the origins and popularization of these new representations in the art and literature of the Harlem Renaissance and how they became an ambiguous symbol of racial uplift constraining African American womanhood in the early twentieth century.
media coverage of British war brides, 1942-1946
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Friedman, Barbara G.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 32 2007
- Thesaurus
- media, macht, gemengde huwelijken, tweede wereldoorlog, vrouwbeelden, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten, 1940-1949, 20e eeuw
- Description
- American GIs in wartime England were instantly attractive to British women - especially in the absence of their fighting men. Some seventy thousand British war brides returned to the United States. In this book Friedman tells how Brithish and American mass media presented this phenomenon. She focuses on media representations of sexuality and marriage in wartime, showing how mass media interpretations turned from public suspicion of war brides to popular acceptance. She considers how the brides saw themselves compared to their media images and shows how the media co-opted brides as symbols of the Anglo-American 'special-friendship', postwar power imbalance, and gendered ideals of marriage and domestication.
representation of Muslim Women in Indian Writings in English 1950-2000
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kidwai, A. R. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Kidwai, Sabina
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- V IND 54 2007
- Description
- This volume of ten articles stands out as a contribution the representation of Muslim woman in post-Independence Indian Writings in English (1950-2000). It examines whether this representation replicates or modifies the image of Muslim woman as ingrained in Western literary tradition. Among the writers discussed are Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Shashi Tharoor, Manohar Malgonkar, Attia Hossain, Balwant Gargi, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Amitav Kumar, Ruskin Bond, Qurratulain Hyder and a host of story writers of Indian regional languages. Besides, the volume contains a critique of the image of Muslim woman in TV serials.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Creedon, Pamela J. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Cramer, Judith > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Rakow, Lana F.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2007
- Thesaurus
- beroepen in de informatievoorziening, journalistiek, communicatie, media, publiciteit, vrouwbeelden, etniciteit, uiterlijk, reclames, leidinggevende beroepen, loopbanen, wereld, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- The authors analyse the ways in which feminist theory and feminist perspectives affect mass communication, with a particular emphasis on race, culture and ethnicity. This updated edition includes new chapters on women's opportunities and obstacles in online journalism, the role of women in health communication, women in sports journalism, women in mass communication in a world of faith. First ed.: 1989