NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has a long and complicated history with transgender representation. The transgender characters are usually white trans women.
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Deshane, Evelyn
Soap boxed
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Mullaney, Annette
Soap boxed
Summer 2008 saw a new phenomenon explode across living rooms of the Arab world: the Turkish television series. Noor, a Turkish soap opera, as well as its predecessor, Sanawat al-Daya, have struck an insistent chord with female viewers. The characters on Noor are Muslim. Though they fast during Ramadan, they also drink alcohol and have premarital sex.
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Mullaney, Annette
The color of desire: a q&a with Siobhan Brooks
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Aimee, Rachel
The color of desire: a q&a with Siobhan Brooks
Siobhan Brooks, author of Unequal Desires, on African-American and Latina women working in the sex industry.
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Aimee, Rachel
Hot for teacher
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Maher, Jennifer
Hot for teacher
Focus on teacher-student relationships and the different effects of male and female teachers on erotic desires of their students. The author describes what will happen in a female-run classroom with perceptions of masculinity, feminity, power and desire.
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Maher, Jennifer
Triumph of the shill
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Pozner, Jennifer L.
Triumph of the shill
Part 2 (in a two-part series) about how marketers are weaving their products and services directly into the plots of populair TV shows.
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Pozner, Jennifer L.
Out of character: Wonder Woman's strength is her compassion, what happened?
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John, Stevie St.
Out of character: Wonder Woman's strength is her compassion, what happened?
Author hopes that there will be a Wonder Woman film soon in the cinema's.
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John, Stevie St.
Conceiving the future
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Zeisler, Andi
Galpern, Emily
Conceiving the future
Admitting to using reproductive technologies, and talking openly about infertility, are still a taboo.
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Zeisler, Andi
Galpern, Emily
Played in full
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Zeisler, Andi
Played in full
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is director of Vanderbilt University's African American and Diaspora Studies department and professor of French. She wrote 'Pimp Up, Ho's down'. Sharpley-Whiting calls for a dialogue about how young black women can reconcile a love of hip hop with a responsibility to call it out for limitless offenses to women.
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Zeisler, Andi
Mass market: two Latina authors plot a feminist invasion of chick-lit
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Leon, Aya de
Mass market: two Latina authors plot a feminist invasion of chick-lit
Aya de León and Sofia Quintero, Latina upcoming fiction writers, talk about chick lit and women's fiction.
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Leon, Aya de
Gray matters: how rape in pop culture became a matter of opinion
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Harding, Kate
Gray matters: how rape in pop culture became a matter of opinion
The term 'gray rape' was introduced by author Laura Sessions Stepp in a 2007 Cosmopolitan article 'A new kind of date rape'. Despite the headline, there's nothing new about her subject.