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fantasizing the reclamation of self in postfeminism
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Negra, Diane
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2008
- Thesaurus
- vrouwbeelden, identiteit, populaire cultuur, reclames, media, stereotypering, feminisme, stromingen, paradigma's, Verenigde Staten, wereld
- Description
- 'What a Girl Wants?' explores the importance and centrality of postfeminism in contemporary popular culture. By analyzing the models and anti-models presented in popular media forms the author holds up a mirror to the contemporary female subject. .Contents: 1) Introduction : 2) Postfeminism, family values, and the social fantasy of the hometown : 3)Time crisis and the new postfeminist lifecycle : 4) Postfeminist working girls: new archetypes of the female labor market : 5) Hyperdomesticity, self-care, and the well-lived life in postfeminism.
black women entertainers writing autobiography
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dreher, Kwakiutl L.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2008
- Thesaurus
- performers, actrices, zangeressen, zwarte vrouwen, discriminatie, vrouwbeelden, populaire cultuur, autobiografieën, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This book pays attention to the written narratives of six acclaimed black women in entertainment: Diahann Carroll, Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, Whoopi Goldberg, and Mary Wilson. Dreher uses autobiography as a tool to see beyond the glamour image of popular culture and to explore each women's full meaning in American culture at large, in the American entertainment culture, and in the politically charged environment of the black community. We learn the real stories of the women as wife, (single) mother, widow, world traveler and wanderer, battered child/battred woman, divorcee, drug abuser, banished and exiled woman, activist/renegade and, ultimately, storyteller.
activism in the girlZone
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sheridan-Rabideau, Mary P.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 7 2008
- Thesaurus
- kinderen, meidenwerk, alfabetisering, populaire cultuur, empowerment, feminisme, vrouwenorganisaties, Verenigde Staten, 1990-1999, 2000-2009
- Description
- This book explores the rise and fall of a grassroots, girl-centered organization, GirlZone, which sought to make social change on a local level. It gives an analysis of how GirlZone participants used literate activities functions as a telling case that addresses questions about literacy, girl culture, consumer culture, and the future of grassroots organizations/community activism beyond this local site.
rhetorics of transgression in U.S. popular culture
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Shugart, Helene A.
- Creator
- Waggoner, Catherine E.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- camp, gender, seksualiteit, homoseksualiteit, politiek, vrouwelijkheid, populaire cultuur, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This book examines the rhetoric and conventions of 'camp' in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality.Camp has long been aligned with gay male culture and performance. Shugart and Waggoner contend that camp in the popular media - whether visual, dramatic, or musical - is equally pervasive. While aesthetic and performative in nature, the authors argue that camp - female camp in particular - is also highly political and that conventions of femininity and female sexuality are negotiated, if not always resisted, in female camp performances.The authors draw on a wide range of references and figures representative of camp, both historical and contemporary, in presenting the evolution of female camp and its negotiation of gender, political, and identity issues. Antecedents such as Joan Crawford, Wonder Woman, Marilyn Monroe, and Pam Grier are discussed as archetypes for contemporary popular culture figures - Macy Gray, Gwen Stefani, and the characters of Xena from Xena: Warrior Princess and Karen Walker from Will and Grace.
black women performers and the shaping of the modern
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brown, Jayna
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- zwarte vrouwen, danseressen, zangeressen, populaire cultuur, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Babylon Girls is a cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows between 1890 and 1945. Through a consideration of the gestures, costuming, vocal techniques, and stagecraft developed by African American singers and dancers, Brown explains how these women shaped the movement and style of an emerging urban popular culture. They pioneered dance movements and the Charleston--black dances by which the 'New Woman' defined herself. These early-twentieth-century performers brought these dances with them as they toured across the United States and around the world, becoming cosmopolitan subjects more widely traveled than many of their audiences.
toward a hip-hop feminist pedagogy
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brown, Ruth Nicole
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 22 2008
- Thesaurus
- zwart feminisme, zwarte vrouwen, zwarte meisjes, populaire cultuur, eigentijdse muziek, vrouwenstudies, pedagogie, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- The author argues that that performances of everyday Black girlhood are mediated by popular culture, personal truths and lived experiences, and that the discussion and critique of these factors can be a great asset in the celebration of Black girls, in a context of hip-hop feminism and critical pedagogy.
perceptions of women from the 1970s through the 1990s
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gourley, Catherine
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- populaire cultuur, media, vrouwbeelden, feminisme, gelijke behandeling, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1999
- Description
- Book about the images and issues that framed perceptions about women during the 1970s through the 1990s. tumultuous decades. The term Ms. was adopted by feminists' women who believed in equal pay for equal work, freedom from sexual harassment, and equal employment opportunities. The Material Girls wanted all this and more: control over their own lives, the kind of control that could only be achieved through money and power.
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