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black women in American film
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mask, Mia
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- films, televisie, zwarte vrouwen, loopbanen, vrouwbeelden, seksualiteit, etniciteit, feminisme, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This study places African American women's stardom in historical contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mask shows how these female stars have ultimately complicated the conventional discursive practices through which blackness and womanhood have been represented in commercial cinema, independent film, and network television. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era American culture. Grier's feminist-camp performances in sexploitation pictures Women in Cages and The Big Doll House highlight a similar tension between representing African American women as both objectified stereotypes and powerful, self-defining icons. Mask reads Goldberg's transforming habits in Sister Act and The Associate as representative of her unruly comedic routines, while Winfrey's daily television performance as self-made, self-help guru echoes narratives of success. Finally, Mask analyzes Berry's success by acknowledging the ways in which Dandridge's career made Berry's possible.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kemp, Sandra > [ed.]
- Creator
- Squires, Judith > [ed.]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 22 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- theorieën, technologie, cyborgs, zwarte vrouwen, seksualiteit, heteroseksualiteit, LHBT, feminisme, sociale klasse, ecologie, filosofie, vrouwengeschiedenis, bundel
- Description
- Spanning nearly two decades, from 1980 to 1996, this Reader investigates the debates which have best characterized feminist theory. Including such articles as Pornography and Fantasy, The Body and Cinema, Nature as Female, and A Manifesto for Cyborgs, the extracts examine thoughts on sexualtiy as a domain of exploration, the visual representation of women, what being a feminist means, and why feminists are increasingly involved in political struggles to negotiate the context and meaning of technological development.
women's sexuality from the progressive era to world war II
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Simmons, Christina
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 32 2009
- Thesaurus
- seksualiteit, huwelijken, prostitutie, seksuele vorming, SOA's, geboorteregeling, feminisme, zwarte vrouwen, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This book narrates the development of the new companionate marriage ideal, which took hold in the early twentieth century and prevailed in American society by the 1940s. The first challenges to discuss sexual relations between husbands and wives came from social hygiene reformers, who advocated for a sex education to combat prostitution and venereal disease. A more radical group of feminists, anarchists, and bohemians opposed the Victorian model of marriage and even the institution of marriage. Birth control advocates such as Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger openly championed women's rights to acquire and use effective contraception. The 'companionate marriage' emerged from these efforts. This marital ideal was characterized by greater emotional and sexuality intimacy for both men and women, use of birth control to create smaller families, and destigmatization of divorce in cases of failed unions. Simmons examines what she calls the 'flapper' marriage, in which free-spirited young wives enjoyed the early years of marriage, postponing children and domesticity. She looks at the feminist marriage in which women imagined greater equality between the sexes in domestic and paid work and sex. And she explores the African American 'partnership marriage,' which often included wives' employment and drew more heavily on the involvement of the community and extended family.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Fineman, Martha Albertson > [ed]
- Creator
- Jackson, Jack E. > [ed]
- Creator
- Romero, P. > [ed]
- Contributor
- Abram, Katryn
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2009
- Thesaurus
- rechtstheorie, rechtspraak, feminisme, zorgarbeid, queer theory, gender, incest, huwelijken, transgenders, zwarte vrouwen, biseksualiteit, homoseksualiteit, lesbische vrouwen, identiteit, seksueel geweld, seksualiteit, bundel
- Description
- In this collection voices in feminist and queer theory are brought together to create an interdisciplinary dialogue that will define the terms of the debates between and within feminist and queer a theoretical framework.These debates revolve around the multiple interrelated issues - such as gender, identity, intimacy, privacy, and sex harassment - that all extend from the emphasis given to gender on the one hand and sex and sexuality on the other. These two theories have much in common but also much that distinguishes them from one another, and that causes tension. The authors in this volume explore the legal, political, social and cultural implications of their distinct theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality.
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