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gendered space and mobility in American women's road narratives, 1970-2000
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ganser, Alexandra
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 4 2009
- Thesaurus
- reisliteratuur, reizigers, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Reading Jack Kerouac's 'On the road' through Virginia Woolf's 'A room of one's own', the author examines women's road narratives. The study shows how women's literature has inscribed itself into the American discourse of the 'freedom of the road'. Women writers have participated in this myth, yet at the same time also have rejected it as fundamentally based on gendered and racial/ethnic hierarchies and power structures. The book analyzes stories about female runaways, outlaws, adventurers, kidnaps, biker chicks and travelling saleswomen and makes theoretical observations on the debates regarding discourses of spatiality and mobility.
emotion and ACT UP's fight against AIDS
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gould, Deborah B.
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2009
- Thesaurus
- aids, acties, emoties, sociale bewegingen, lesbische vrouwen, homo's, Verenigde Staten, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by taking to the streets. But by the early 1990s, the organization they founded, ACT UP, was no more—even as the AIDS epidemic raged on. Weaving together interviews with activists, extensive research, and reflections on the author’s time as a member of the organization, this book tells the story of the rise and fall of ACT UP, highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion. Overlooked by many scholars of social movements, emotion, Gould argues, plays a fundamental role in political activism. From anger to hope, pride to shame, and solidarity to despair, feelings played a significant part in ACT UP’s style of protest, which included demonstrations, die-ins, and other kinds of street theater.
reading incest in neoliberal America
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Harkins, Gillian
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2009
- Thesaurus
- incest, literatuur, Verenigde Staten, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author posits the late twentieth-century increase in incest literature against political and economic changes of the era. Issues of race, class and gender are emphasized in textual analysis, which is combined with theory –feminist and multidisciplinary– and discussion of the culture of the era. The author is particularly concerned with the effects of neoliberal ideology on patriarchal distributions of power within nationally constructed fantasies of the Freudian concept of the family romance. She discusses different concepts of trauma, the history and cultural variations of the incest taboo and the so called 'memory wars' in the debate on incest.
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