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- Markens, Susan
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 34 2007
- Thesaurus
- moederschap, recht, etniciteit, media, vrouwenorganisaties, religie, voortplantingstechnologie
- Description
- Markens takes on one of the most important issues on the fertility front--surrogate motherhood--in a book that illuminates the culture wars that have erupted over new reproductive technologies in the United States. In an analysis of legislative responses to surrogacy in the states of New York and California, Markens explores how discourses about gender, family, race, genetics, rights, and choice have shaped policies aimed at this issue. She examines the views of key players, including legislators, women's organizations, religious groups, the media, and others. In a study that finds ideological agreement among those with opposing views of surrogate motherhood, Markens challenges common assumptions about our responses to reproductive technologies and at the same time offers a fascinating picture of how reproductive politics shape social policy.
the mask that reveals, post-jungian and postmodern psychological perspectives on women in contemporary culture
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Tannen, Ricki Stefani
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- psychoanalyse, psychologie, populaire cultuur, romans, recht, media, humor
- Description
- This book presents a role of women in contemporary Western society by investigating the re-emergence of female trickster energy in all aspects of popular culture. Tannen explores the psychological aspects of what happened when womens imagination was legally and psychologically enclosed millennia ago and demonstrates how the re-emergence of Trickster energy through the female imagination has the radical potential to effect a transformation of western consciousness. Examples are drawn from a diverse range of sources, from Jane Austen, and female sleuth narratives, to Madonna and Sex and the City, illustrating how Trickster energy is used not to maintain power and control but to integrate and unite the paradoxical through humour.
figuring female transgression in modern Japanese culture
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- 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
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- 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.
Iraq, sex, and the media
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Oliver, Kelly
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- NO 8 2007
- Thesaurus
- geweld, terrorisme, media, Irak, Afghanistan, Palestina
- Description
- From the female soldiers involved in Abu Ghraib to Palestinian women suicide bombers, women and their bodies have become powerful weapons in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. In Women as Weapons of War, Kelly Oliver reveals how the media and the administration frequently use metaphors of weaponry to describe women and female sexuality and forge a deliberate link between notions of vulnerability and images of violence. Focusing specifically on the U.S. campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, Oliver analyzes contemporary discourse surrounding women, sex, and gender and the use of women to justify America's decision to go to war. For example, the administration's call to liberate 'women of cover,' suggesting a woman's right to bare arms is a sign of freedom and progress. .Oliver also considers what forms of cultural meaning, or lack of meaning, could cause both the guiltlessness demonstrated by female soldiers at Abu Ghraib and the profound commitment to death made by suicide bombers. She examines the pleasure taken in violence and the passion for death exhibited by these women and what kind of contexts created them. In conclusion, Oliver diagnoses our cultural fascination with sex, violence, and death and its relationship with live news coverage and embedded reporting, which naturalizes horrific events and stymies critical reflection. This process, she argues, further compromises the borders between fantasy and reality, fueling a kind of paranoid patriotism that results in extreme forms of violence.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hammill, Faye
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, receptie, media, vrouwbeelden, Verenigde Staten, Canada, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1920-1929, 1930-1939
- Description
- In the years between the first and second world wars the fenomenon of stardom and celebrity spread to writers. Personal appearances and private lives came to fascinate readers as much as their work. Fame and commercial success of these writers, and their gender affected the literary reception of their work. Literary elites called their writing 'middlebrow'. This book is a comparative study of North American and British literary celebrity. It profiles seven American, Canadian, and British women writers - Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Mae West, L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Kennedy, Stella Gibbons, and E.M. Delafield.
2005 and 2006 report
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Abramowicz, Martha > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- lesbische vrouwen, biseksuelen, homo's, discriminatie, politiek, wetgeving, onderwijs, media, internet, gezondheidszorg, rooms-katholicisme, sporten, Polen, statistiek, 2000-2009, 21e eeuw, rapport
- Description
- A detailed analysis of the social situation of bisexual and homosexual people in all aspects of life in Poland. The first .part of this report covers the analysis of data obtained in the poll carried out in late 2006. One thousand bisexual and homosexual persons participated. The second part of the report is the analysis of the society’s attitude towards bisexual and homosexual people in different spheres of life, such as the political life, mass-media, education, etc.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Marwick, Arthur
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- B5654 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwbeelden, seksualiteit, media, vrouwenlichamen
- Description
- If Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Antony would have fallen in love with her. A History of Human Beauty treats outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family, that had a marked effect on history. Beauty in men and women opened opportunities to its possessors not available to the ordinary looking or ugly. While in the past women have had to use the lure of sex to achieve power or wealth, epitomised by royal mistresses or the Grandes Horizontales of the nineteenth century, modern film stars (male and female) can acquire great wealth simply by the use of their images, while attractiveness on television is an essential modern qualification for power, as shown by Ronald Reagan and Tony Blair.
media, ethnicity, and gender in the break-up of Yugoslavia
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Zarkov, Dubravka
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- O EUR 1L 2007
- Thesaurus
- vrouwbeelden, media, lichamen, gender, seksualiteit, etniciteit, oorlog en vrede, geweld, feminisme, Servië, Kroatië
- Description
- Žarkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war. She argues that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups, but that ethnicity was produced by the war itself. She argues that both the representational practices of the 'media war' and those of the 'ethnic war' depended on specific notions of femininity and masculinity, (hetero)sexuality and ethnicity.
gender and the politics of popular culture
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Tasker, Yvonne > [ed]
- Creator
- Negra, Diane > [ed]
- Contributor
- Wearing, Sadie
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- media, feminisme, theorieën, seksualiteit, sociale klasse, etniciteit, populaire cultuur, bundel
- Description
- This collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the “girling” of aging women in productions such as the movie Something’s Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger.This book broadly defines that feminism has accomplished its goals and is now a thing of the past. It presumes that women are unsatisfied with their legal and social equality and can find fulfillment only through practices of transformation and empowerment. Postfeminism is defined by class, age, and racial exclusions: it is youth-obsessed and white and middle-class by default. Anchored in consumption as a strategy and leisure as a site for the production of the self, postfeminist mass media assumes that the pleasures and lifestyles with which it is associated are somehow universally shared and, perhaps more significantly, universally accessible.