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Troubled memories
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- Estrada, Oswaldo
Troubled memories
This book analyzes the literary and cultural representation of several iconic Mexican women. He examines recent fictionalizations of the historical women Malinche, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Leona Vicario, the soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution and Frida Kahlo, who achieved mythical status in Mexican culture and continue to play a complex role in Mexican literature. Focusing on contemporary novels, plays, and chronicles in connection to films, television series, and corridos of the Mexican Revolution, the author analyzes how and why authors repeatedly recreate the lives of these historical women from contemporary perspectives, often generating hybrid narratives that fuse history, memory, and fiction.- Creator
- Estrada, Oswaldo
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She found it at the movies
- Creator
- Newland, Christina > Newland, Christina (ed.)
She found it at the movies
Essays by female or nonbinary film critics about women’s relationships with films and female sexuality, that explore women’s secret desires, teen crushes, sexual awakening, eroticism, sensuality, pleasure and the appeal of film stars. In a century of cinema’s male-gaze domination and misogyny and sexism in the real world this collection explores the female gaze and the wider landscape of sexuality, the body, politics and culture.- Creator
- Newland, Christina > Newland, Christina (ed.)
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Ich bin eine Kanackin
- Creator
- Tuzcu, Pinar
Ich bin eine Kanackin
This book explores the performance of Lady Bitch Ray, Turkish rapper who grew up in Germany. The author analyses the rapper's use of the term 'Kanackin'. She also combines issues of popfeminism and postmigration and proposes paradoxality as a source to diversify general concepts of feminism.- Creator
- Tuzcu, Pinar
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From the dance hall to Facebook
- Creator
- Thiel-Stern, Shayla
From the dance hall to Facebook
From the days of the penny press to the contemporary world of social media, journalistic accounts of teen girls in trouble have been a mainstay of the U.S. news media. Often the stories represent these girls as either victims or whores, using news-gathering practices that question girls' ability to perform femininity properly, especially as they act in public recreational space. This book takes a look at working-class girls in dance halls of the early 1900s: girls' track and field teams in the 1920s to 1940s: Elvis Presley fans in the mid-1950s: punk rockers in the late 1970s and early 1980s: and girls using the Internet in the early twenty-first century. In each case, issues of gender, socioeconomic status, and race are explored within their historical context. The book argues that by marginalizing and stereotyping teen girls over the past century, mass media have perpetuated a pattern of gendered crisis that ultimately limits the cultural and political power of the young women it covers.- Creator
- Thiel-Stern, Shayla
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Sex and the failed absolute
- Creator
- Zizek, Slavoj
Sex and the failed absolute
This book provides a new definition of dialectical materialism. By doing this the author challenges not only the work of philosophers like Alain Badiou, Joan Copjec and Julia Kristeva but everything from popular science and quantum mechanics to sexual difference and analytic philosophy. New readings of Hegel and Kant go along with commentaries on film, politics and culture.. .The book consists of four parts. The first part outlines the fate of ontology in the 21st century, reviewing readings of Kant, Hegel, Buddha and Husserl. Part two considers different notions of sexual difference. Part three describes notions of the Möbius strip, the cross-cap and the Klein bottle. The last part recapitulates the basic motif of this book, the persistence of abstraction in its three figures (madness, sexual passion and war).- Creator
- Zizek, Slavoj
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LGBTQ social movements
- Creator
- Stulberg, Lisa M.
LGBTQ social movements
In recent years, there has been substantial progress on LGBTQ civil rights in the United States. We are now in a time of incredible political uncertainty for queer people. This book provides an introduction to mainstream LGBTQ movements in the US, illustrating the many forms that LGBTQ activism has taken since the mid-twentieth century. The book covers a range of topics, including the Stonewall uprising and gay liberation, AIDS politics, queer activism, marriage equality fights and bisexual and transgender justice. Stulberg explores how marginalized communities have used a wide range of political and cultural tools to create change. The five key themes that guide the book are assimilationism and liberationism as strategies for equality, the possibilities of legal change, the role of art and popular culture in social change, the interconnectedness of social movements and the role of privilege in movement organizing.- Creator
- Stulberg, Lisa M.
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Home sweat home
- Creator
- Patton, Elizabeth > [ed]
- Choi, Mimi > [ed]
Home sweat home
In this collection of essays, contributors explore the construction of women as homemakers and the erasure of household labor from the middle-class home in popular representations of housework. They concentrate on such matters as the impact of second-wave feminism on families and gender relations: of popular culture—especially in film, television, magazines, and advertising—on our views of what constitutes home life and gender relations: and of changing views of sexuality and masculinity within the domestic sphere.- Creator
- Patton, Elizabeth > [ed]
- Choi, Mimi > [ed]
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Steampunk
- Creator
- Nally, Claire
Steampunk
Steampunk is a fashion craze, a literary genre and a lifestyle. Nally explains how the fashion, music, visual culture, literature and politics of the subculture of steampunk intersects with theories of gender and sexuality. She looks at gender and the graphic novel: the legacies of colonialism: science and the role of Ada Lovelace as a feminist steampunk icon.- Creator
- Nally, Claire
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Femininity, self-harm and eating disorders in Japan
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- Hansen, Gitte Marianne
Femininity, self-harm and eating disorders in Japan
This book examines the relationship between femininity and women’s self-directed violence in contemporary Japanese culture. The book develops the concept of ‘contradictive femininity’ and shows how in Japanese culture, women’s paradoxical roles are thematised through three character construction. It then demonstrates how eating disorders and self-harm are included in normative femininity and suggests that such self-directed violence can be interpreted as coping strategies. Looking at novels, artwork, manga, anime, TV dramas and news stories, the book analyses both well known Japanese culture such as Murakami Haruki’s literary works and Miyazaki Hayao’s animation, as well as culture unavailable to non-Japanese readers- Creator
- Hansen, Gitte Marianne
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Cupcakes, pinterest, and ladyporn
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- Levine, Elana > [ed]
Cupcakes, pinterest, and ladyporn
Though often dismissed as frivolous or excessively emotional, feminized culture offers compelling insights into the American experience of the early twenty-first century. Elana Levine brings together writings from feminist critics that chart the current terrain of feminized pop cultural production. Analyzing everything from Fifty Shades of Grey to Pinterest to pregnancy apps, contributors examine the economic, technological, representational, and experiential dimensions of products and phenomena that speak to, and about, the feminine.The imperative of productivity currently permeating feminized pop culture has created a generation of texts that speak as much to women's roles as public and private workers as to an impulse for fantasy or escape.- Creator
- Levine, Elana > [ed]
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What we don't talk about when we talk about #MeToo
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- Wypijewski, Joann
What we don't talk about when we talk about #MeToo
From the HIV crisis to the paedophile priest panic, Woody Allen to Brett Kavanaugh, child pornography to Abu Ghraib, Wypijewski takes the most famous sex panics of the last decades and turns them inside out, weaving what together becomes a searing indictment of modern sexual politics, of #MeToo, exposing the myriad ways sex panics and the expansion of the punitive state are intertwined.- Creator
- Wypijewski, Joann
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Reading women
- Creator
- Badia, Janet
- Phegley, Jennifer
Reading women
Literary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, an esteemed group of new and established scholars provide a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Oprah Winfrey’s televised book club, as well as the writings of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Zora Neale Hurston. .Attending especially to what, how, and why women read, Reading Women brings together a rich array of subjects that sheds light on the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation, not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of books and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms.- Creator
- Badia, Janet
- Phegley, Jennifer
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Mediating moms
- Creator
- Podnieks, Elizabeth > (ed.)
- Wardrop, Stephanie
- Johnson, Jo
- [et al.]
Mediating moms
This is a collection of essays that examine maternal representations in film, TV, the Internet, newspapers, tabloids, pragnancy manuals, parenting magazines, and bestselling fiction. The authors aim to know how mediated representations might be interpreted by mothers, and how they impact mothers in their lived realities- Creator
- Podnieks, Elizabeth > (ed.)
- Wardrop, Stephanie
- Johnson, Jo
- [et al.]
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Bad girls
- Creator
- Owen, A. Susan
- Stein, Sarah R.
- Vande Berg, Leah R.
Bad girls
Analysis of portrayals of women and public institutions: in careers, governmental service and interactions with technology, and of representations of the American feminist movement between 1979 and 2005.- Creator
- Owen, A. Susan
- Stein, Sarah R.
- Vande Berg, Leah R.
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Feminist interrogations of women's head hair
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- Barak-Brandes, Sigal > (ed.)
- Kama, Amit > (ed.)
Feminist interrogations of women's head hair
This book investigates meanings associated with female head hair, problematising assumptions about its role and implications in the 21st Century. Authors reflect on the use of hair in popular culture, such as children’s television and pop album artwork, as well as in work by women artists. Studies examine the lived experiences of women from a range of backgrounds and histories, including curly-haired women in Israel, African American women and lesbians in France. Other essays interrogate the connotations of women’s head hair in relation to body image, religion and aging.- Creator
- Barak-Brandes, Sigal > (ed.)
- Kama, Amit > (ed.)
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I like to watch
- Creator
- Nussbaum, Emily
I like to watch
In this collection Nussbaum writes about her passion for television, beginning with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that set her on a fresh intellectual path. She explores the rise of the female screw-up, the messy power of sexual violence on TV and the year that jokes helped elect a reality-television president. TThe book also includes an essay written during the year of #MeToo, wrestling with the question of what to do when the artist you love is a monster.- Creator
- Nussbaum, Emily
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Celebrity and the feminist blockbuster
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- Taylor, Anthea
Celebrity and the feminist blockbuster
Taylor explores how the authors of popular feminist non-fiction books have shaped the public identity of modern feminism. Moving from the 1960s to the present, focusing on how feminist authors like Friedan, Greer, Wolf, Gay and Dunham have actively worked to manufacture their public personas, she demonstrates that the blockbuster remains crucial to feminist celebrification but is now often augmented with digital media.- Creator
- Taylor, Anthea
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Representations of muslim women in German popular culture, 1990–2015
- Creator
- Selfe, Lauren
Representations of muslim women in German popular culture, 1990–2015
This book explores representations of muslim women and girls in post-1990 German life writing, young adult literature and film. It investigates the function of such representations in German popular culture through three questions: what kind of representation constitutes the muslim female figure in these genres?, how do representations of muslim women and girls function to produce non-muslim subject positions? and what is the role of such figures within feminist narratives? The project considers the figure of the muslim woman to be produced by intersecting notions of gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality and nationality.- Creator
- Selfe, Lauren
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Handbook on gender and violence
- Creator
- Shepherd, Laura J. > (ed.)
Handbook on gender and violence
This book explores the many ways gender and violence interact across different contexts. Part one considers the core concepts of gender and violence alongside related concepts including sex, sexualities, patriarchy, and security. Part two investigates the different ways in which gender and violence are enacted through various representational practices, including film, policy, and online. The final part is devoted to the examination of gender and violence in a range of empirical settings, including different spheres of activity, from economic to juridical.- Creator
- Shepherd, Laura J. > (ed.)
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Ik, cyborg
- Creator
- Smelik, Anneke
Ik, cyborg
Onderzoek naar de rol en verbeelding van technologie in populaire cultuur, specifiek in science fiction film en vanuit de figuur van de cyborg (cybernetisch organisme) vanaf de jaren tachtig van de twintigste eeuw. De auteur stelt dat mensen haast ongemerkt kenmerken van de cyborg overnemen in het dagelijks leven en in de manier van aankleden en vormgeven. De cyborg is van een angstbeeld een wenselijk ideaalbeeld geworden en sluit aan bij het verlangen naar de maakbare mens. Aan de orde komen kwesties als de invloed van de cyborg op het zelfbeeld van mensen - in de vorm van een haarloos lichaam -, de verschuivende grenzen tussen mannelijke en vrouwelijke cyborgs, de verhouding tussen het superieure geheugen van de cyborg en het falende geheugen van mensen.- Creator
- Smelik, Anneke
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Modern misogyny
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- Anderson, Kristin J.
Modern misogyny
This book looks at the notion that the feminist movement has ended, in large part because the work of feminism has been completed. In fact, the argument goes, women have been so successful in achieving equality, it is now men who currently are at risk of becoming irrelevant and unnecessary. These sentiments make up modern anti-feminism. Anderson argues that equality has not been fully achieved and that anti-feminism is now packaged in a more palatable, but stealthy form. This book addresses the nature, function, and implications of modern anti-feminism in the United States.- Creator
- Anderson, Kristin J.
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Veiled superheroes
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- Arjana, Sophia Rose
- Fox, Kim
Veiled superheroes
This book is about stories of Muslim women as told through comics and animated cartoons. These forms of popular culture offer another vision of Islam than that of anxiety and terror. The book focuses on Muslim female superheroes from Pakistan, Kuwait, Egypt and the United States that illustrate the diversity of Muslim experience in today's world. It shows positive characters, Muslim women who are independent, exercise special powers and fight against injustice. Examples include Burka Avenger, Ms. Marvel and Bloody Nasreen. They are often global figures, veiled and political characters. The author analyzes the communication of their bodies, customes, words and actions.- Creator
- Arjana, Sophia Rose
- Fox, Kim
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Girls like this, boys like that
- Creator
- Cann, Victoria
Girls like this, boys like that
What role does taste play in contemporary youth culture? How do young people reproduce, or alternatively, reject gender norms? Using research and the work of theorists such as Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu, the author argues that popular culture affects young people's experiences of masculinity and femininity and forces them to navigate a social minefield in which they are pressured to display tastes deemed appropriate for their gender.- Creator
- Cann, Victoria
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Daddy issues
- Creator
- Angel, Katherine
Daddy issues
Essay on fathers and feminism. Considering the #MeToo discussion and the harm inflicted by men (including fathers) on women, this book examines the role of fathers in contemporary culture, psychoanalysis and literature and discusses how the negative connotations about our fathers can be turned into a constructive relationship.- Creator
- Angel, Katherine
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Princess cultures
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- Forman-Brunell, Miriam > (ed., introd.)
- Hains, Rebecca C. > (ed., introd.)
- Nash, Ilana
- Condis, Megan
- Avila-Saavedra, Guillermo
- [et al.]
Princess cultures
Princesses are significant figures in girls’ culture in the United States and around the world. This anthology brings together international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the multitude of princess cultures, continuously redrawn and recast by grownups and girls from the Ancien Régime to the New Millennium. Essays critically examine the gendered, racialized, classed, and ethnic meanings of royal figures and fairytale and pop culture princesses inscribed in folk tales, movies, cartoons, video games, dolls, and imitated in play and performance. Focusing on the representation and reception of the princess in western and non-western ideologies, this collection examines the position of princess cultures mediating the lives, imaginations, and identities of girls from toddlers to teenagers - and beyond.- Creator
- Forman-Brunell, Miriam > (ed., introd.)
- Hains, Rebecca C. > (ed., introd.)
- Nash, Ilana
- Condis, Megan
- Avila-Saavedra, Guillermo
- [et al.]
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Postfeminism
- Creator
- Genz, Stéphanie
Postfeminism
This book is an introductory text on postfeminism. It provides an overview of postfeminism's underpinnings and critical contexts, different perceptions of and theories related to it and popular media representations that have been characterised as 'postfeminist'. The authours contextualise postfeminism by considering its position within feminist histories and its emergence in popular culture, academia and politics. They analyse a number of case studies, from popular icons like David Beckham and Lara Croft to the underground punk movement Riot Grrl and the controversial American women's rights activist Periel Aschenbrand. Included are chapters on the Backlash, New Traditionalism, New Feminism, Girl power and Chick-lit, Do-Me Feminism and Raunch Culture, Feminism, Postcolonial Feminism, Queer Feminism, Men and Feminism, Cyberfeminism, Third Wave Feminism, and Feminism and Enterprise Culture.- Creator
- Genz, Stéphanie
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Sexuality and gender in postcommunist Eastern Europe and Russia
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- Stulhofer, Aleksandar > (ed.)
- Sandfort, Theo > (ed.)
Sexuality and gender in postcommunist Eastern Europe and Russia
This collection examines the effects of the social transformations taking place in Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe since the fall of communism. It addresses issues arising from these changes, including gender relations, gender roles and sex norms in transition, sexual representations in the media, patterns of adult sexual behavior, gay and lesbian issues, sex trafficking, health risks, and sexuality education.- Creator
- Stulhofer, Aleksandar > (ed.)
- Sandfort, Theo > (ed.)
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