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African American women's activism in the beauty industry
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gill, Tiffany M.
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 4 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- zwarte vrouwen, dagelijks leven, zwarte vrouwenbewegingen, identiteit, schoonheidsspecialisten, haarmode, vrouwenlichamen, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Looking through the lens of black business history, this book shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era showed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. The author argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in the creation of the modern black female identity and that the seemingly frivolous space of a beauty salon actually has stimulated social, political, and economic change. From the founding of the National Negro Business League in 1900 and onward, African Americans have embraced the entrepreneurial spirit by starting their own businesses, but black women's forays into the business world were overshadowed by those of black men. With a broad scope that encompasses the role of gossip in salons, ethnic beauty products, and the social meanings of African American hair textures, Gill shows how African American beauty entrepreneurs built and sustained a vibrant culture of activism in beauty salons and schools.
gender, health, and networks of power
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Reed, Lori > (ed.)
- Creator
- Saukko, Paula > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Vavrus, Mary Douglas
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2010
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenlichamen, machtstheorieën, lijfpolitiek, geneeskunde, ziekten, Verenigde Staten, bundel
- Description
- Draws from feminist and post-structuralist traditions of analyzing discourses that have constituted female bodies and selves. Foucault’s theory of governmentality is central. The essays explore various gendered discourses and practices in areas around health, including: genomics, in vitro fertilization, psychotropic and hormonal drugs, formation of advocacy groups and identities, and new interactive models of communication and (self-)diagnosis. The specific topics include, among others, breast cancer, depression, internet addiction, the pill, and menstruation.
the complete guide to contraceptive choices for women
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Eldridge, Laura
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- anticonceptie, pil, hormonen, menstruatie, vrouwenlichamen, geboorteregeling, condooms, mannen, milieu
- Description
- In this book on birth control Eldridge discusses the history, scientific advances, and practical uses of everything from condoms to the male pill to Plan B. Do diaphragms work? Should you stay on the Pill? What does fertility awareness really mean? Eldridge explores large-scale issues that might factor into women's birth control choices, urging her readers to consider the environmental impacts of each method and to take part in a dialogue on how international reproductive health issues affect us all. Whether you're looking for your first birth control method or want to know more about your current contraceptive choice, the book offers the cutting edge information and practical wisdom you’ll need to make empowered decisions about your sexual health.
work, gender, and popular culture in France, 1870-1914
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Tilburg, Patricia A.
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- FR 54 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, kunsten, populaire cultuur, sociale klasse, onderwijs, meisjes, vrouwenlichamen, aanvals- en verdedigingssporten, Frankrijk, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In France's Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. And yet with all of its pragmatic smoothing over of the supernatural edges of Catholicism, the Third Republic engendered its own fantastical ways of seeing by embracing observation, corporeal dynamism, and imaginative introspection. How these republican ideals meant to impart these ideals-shaped belle époque popular culture is the focus of this book. The author looks at the meaning of secularization and offers a cultural history of this period by way of an interrogation of several episodes which shared an attachment to the potent moral and aesthetic directives of French republicanism: a village's battle to secularize its schools, a scandalous novel, a vaudeville hit featuring a nude celebrity, and a craze for female boxing. Beginning with the writer and performer Colette (1873-1954) as a point of entry, this re-evaluation of belle époque popular culture probes the startling connections between republican values of labor and physical health on the one hand, and the cultural innovations of the decades preceding World War I on the other.
time, ethics, and the feminine
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Girgus, Sam B.
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2010
- Thesaurus
- films, ethiek, filosofie, vrouwenlichamen, vrouwelijkheid
- Description
- Levinas’ ethics and his relationship to film are studied in relation to the work of Luce Irigaray, Tina Chanter, Kelly Oliver, and Ewa Ziarek. The sexualized female body is eyed with feminist perspectives. Readings of films from different decades and cultures are made, including Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Federico Fellini's La dolce vita (1959), Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), John Huston's The Misfits (1961), and Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Block, Marcelline > (ed.)
- Creator
- Laflen, Angela > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- gezondheid, vrouwenlichamen, mannelijkheid, etniciteit, voortplantingstechnologie, romans, huiselijk geweld, seropositieven, historisch
- Description
- Research about gender in the medical humanities and in narrative medicine, intersects with theories of sexuality throughout the essays in this book. Gender stereotypes shape the way medicine is practiced and perceived. The chapters in this collection investigate gendered representations of medical practitioners and patients in fiction, memoir, poetry, film, television, the history of science, new media, and visual art.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Pedwell, Carolyn
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2010
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenlichamen, intersectionaliteit, genitale verminking, hoofddoeken, theorieën, anorexia nervosa, populaire cultuur, plastische chirurgie
- Description
- This book examines how cross cultural comparisons of embodied practices (‘African’ female genital cutting and ‘Western’ cosmetic surgery] function as a rhetorical device – with particular theoretical, social and political effects - in a range of contemporary feminist texts. The author asks why and how are cross-cultural links among these practices drawn by feminist theorists and commentators, and what do these analogies do? What knowledges, hierarchies and figurations do these comparisons produce in feminist theory, and how do such effects resonate within popular culture?
the new feminist movement
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Redfern, Catherine
- Creator
- Aune, Kristin
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2010
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenbewegingen, feminisme, derde feministische golf, seksualiteit, geweld, arbeid, politieke participatie, religie, vrouwenlichamen
- Description
- In today's 'post-feminist' society, women and men are considered equal. For younger women and men, feminism is often portrayed as unfashionable and irrelevant. But since the beginning of the new millennium a new generation have emerged to challenge these assumptions and assert a new agenda. This book reveals the what, why and how of the new feminist movement and what it has to say about women's lives in today's society. From cosmetic surgery to celebrity culture and girl power to globalization, from rape to religion and sex to singleness, this book reveals the seven vital issues at stake for today's feminists, unveils the beginnings of a fresh and diverse wave of feminism, and calls a new generation back to action.
bodies and identities in a technological age
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Shapiro, Eve
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 22 2010
- Thesaurus
- gender, vrouwenlichamen, transgenders, interseksualiteit, internet, technologie, identiteit, mannelijkheid, vrouwelijkheid, etniciteit, cyborgs, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through sociological analysis and case studies. Examining the intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information and biomedical technologies, and embodied identities, the book explores whether and how new technologies are reshaping what it means to be a gendered person in contemporary society.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Layne, Linda L. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Vostral, Sharra > (ed.)
- Creator
- Boyer, Kate > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Gorenstein, Shirley
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 39 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- technologie, feminisme, vrouwenlichamen, bundel
- Description
- The contributors explore questions: Is there such a thing as a 'feminist technology'? If so, what makes a technology feminist? Is it in the design process, in the thing itself, in the way it is marketed, or in the way it is used by women (or by men)? They focus on case studies of menstrual-suppressing birth control pills, home pregnancy tests, tampons, breast pumps, Norplant, anti-fertility vaccines, and microbicides.
reconciling image in print and visual culture
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Henderson, Carol E. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2010
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenlichamen, identiteit, etniciteit, zwarte vrouwen, vrouwbeelden, literatuur, muziek, bundel
- Description
- This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various “imaginings” of the black female body in print and visual culture. Offering an exploration of the continuities and discontinuities of subjectivity and agency, this collection reveals black women’s expressivity as a multilayered enterprise, liberating and similarly confining. Thus these representations in art, literature, and culture perform a delicate and challenging dance of redemption—a redemption necessary to flesh out the precarious dynamics of being black and female at the turn of this century.
van godin tot slavin
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Janssens, Ugo
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2010
- Thesaurus
- godinnen, matriarchaat, patriarchaat, mannelijkheid, vrouwelijkheid, vrouwenlichamen, vrouwenkiesrecht, vrouwenbewegingen, historisch
- Description
- In dit boek waagt de auteur zich aan een analyse van de maatschappelijke positie van vrouwen in de loop der eeuwen. Ook Anna Maria van Schuurman, Aletta jacobs en Wilhelmina Drucker komen kort aan de orde.Voor zijn studie baseert hij zich op archeologische en antropologische bevindingen, historische, filosofische en theologische bronnen, en eigentijdse literatuur. De auteur gaat achtereenvolgens dieper in op het matriarchaat en patriarchaat, de klassieke wereld van het Middellandse Zeegebied en de Keltische en Germaanse culturen, de middeleeuwen en Renaissance, en de nieuwe tijd. Het algemene beeld dat uit deze geschiedenis naar voren komt, is dat de vrouw altijd werd beschouwd als een inferieur wezen met weinig rechten en veel plichten.
from the invention of hysteria to the democratizing of transgenderism
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gherovici, Patricia
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2010
- Thesaurus
- transgenders, vrouwenlichamen, mannenlichamen, hysterie, transseksualiteit, seksualiteit, psychoanalyse, historisch
- Description
- Utilizing clinical vignettes and Lacanian theory the author demonstrates how the transgender discourse has both reoriented psychoanalytic practice and reframed debates about gender in American society. She traverses historical, theoretical, and clinical grounds to explore what has been termed the 'democratizing of gender' – for what could be more democratic than the choice of one’s own gender, now able to be changed on demand? Arguing for the depathologization of transgenderism this book aims to revise notions of human sexuality in general. In doing so, it challenges the theory and practice of psychoanalysis with questions addressed only indirectly, but which are transforming how analysis is done, advancing new ideas for the clinic that can be extrapolated to social and intellectual contexts .
verhalen over lijven, leven en lust vanuit de kreukelzone
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kool, Jacqueline
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- NED 39 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenlichamen, seksualiteit, ziekten, gehandicapten
- Description
- 28 vrouwen met verschillende fysieke beperkingen vertellen over hun onwillige lijf, hoe ze omgaan met hun kwetsbaarheid en hoe ze erin slagen om van hun lichaam te genieten.
feminist perspectives
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lorber, Judith > [ed]
- Creator
- Moore, Lisa Jean > [ed]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 22 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenlichamen, seksualiteit, religie, sociale klasse, moederschap, borstkanker, LHBT, terrorisme, transgenders, mannelijkheid, vrouwelijkheid, bundel
- Description
- This book focuses on key themes that reveal how gendered relations, ideologies, and practices shape human bodies. At the same time, it shows how human bodies are linked to other significant axes of inequality based on racial ethnic group, disability, sexuality, class, culture, religion, age, and nation. This second edition incorporates sixteen new selections on such topics as evolution and motherhood: breastfeeding: breast cancer: the effects of height on men: job discrimination and transgendered people: world champion runner Caster Semenya and sex verification: disability, gender, and embodiment: and Palestinian female suicide bombers.
the injustice of appearance in life and law
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rhode, Deborah L.
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2010
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenlichamen, uiterlijk, rechtspraak, sociale klasse, seksueel geweld, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Legal or illegal is often beside the point when it comes to cases like those Rhode surveys, though there are civil rights issues that immediately spring to mind for scholars in this field. The author's own experience with appearance expectations in the seemingly egalitarian world of academia notwithstanding, most of the cases and examples she provides are unfortunately not surprising. The book covers a range of social classes, and tackles issues ranging from weight bias to the legality of forcing a college professor to change hairstyles. Rhodes argues that in jurisdictions with provisions protecting individuals from appearance-related discrimination in the workplace, the courts are not clogged with cases, contrary to the assumption of critics.
women growing older in anti-aging culture
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Clarke, Laura Hurd
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 39 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- veroudering, ouderen, uiterlijk, vrouwenlichamen, lichaamsverzorging, vrouwbeelden, feminisme
- Description
- Examines the relationship between aging and women in the context of a culture obsessed with youthfulness and feminist theories about aging, beauty work, femininity, and the body.
the flaws in the science of sex differences
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jordan-Young, Rebecca M.
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 39 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- man vrouw verschillen, biologie, gender, vrouwenlichamen, seksualiteit, seksuele voorkeur, sekserollen, neurologie, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- In this book, the author takes on the evidence that sex differences are hardwired into the brain. Analyzing virtually all published research that supports the claims of 'human brain organization theory', she reveals how often these studies fail the standards of science. Even if careful researchers point out the limits of their own studies, other researchers and journalists can easily ignore them because brain organization theory just sounds so right.
Phänomenologie der Geschlechtlichkeit bei Beauvoir, Irigaray und Butler
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Stoller, Silvia
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2010 - B
- Description
- Wie sieht eine Geschlechtertheorie aus, die die Einsichten der modernen Geschlechterforschung mittels der klassischen Phänomenologie bearbeitet? Existenz, Differenz, Konstruktion fanden als Leitbegriffe des 20. Jahrhunderts auch Eingang in die philosophische Geschlechterforschung. Simone de Beauvoir (Existenz), Luce Irigaray (Differenz) und Judith Butler (Konstruktion) sind ihre prominenten Vertreterinnen. Wurden sie bislang als Gegensätze rezipiert, geht diese Studie einen ganz anderen Weg: Existenz, Differenz und Konstruktion schließen einander nicht aus, sondern finden ihren Ort in einer Phänomenologie der Geschlechtlichkeit.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Whisnant, Rebecca > [ed]
- Creator
- DesAutels, Peggy > [ed]
- Creator
- Nelson, James L.
- Creator
- Hom, Sabrina
- Creator
- Held, Virginia
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- globalisering, burgerschap, feministische filosofie, armoede, oorlog en vrede, terrorisme, mensenrechten, vrouwenlichamen, eerste wereldoorlog
- Description
- Feminist approaches to global issues address a great many questions that iinclude: What are the obligations of global citizenship? How must our concepts of caring, and of human rights, be modified or expanded when applied in a global context? What approach to peacekeeping, if any, underwrites effective peacekeeping missions? Who counts as poor, and who does not? What emotions can motivate sustained, ethical, and effective political action? The topics covered herein-from peacekeeping and terrorism, to sex trafficking and women's paid labor, to poverty and religious fundamentalism-are vital to women and to feminist movements throughout the world.
from abolitionism to peacekeeping
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Harrington, Carol
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2010
- Thesaurus
- seksueel geweld, oorlog en vrede, verkrachtingen, prostitutie, vrouwenhandel, autonomie, vrouwenlichamen, vrouwenorganisaties, feminisme, internationale organisaties, VN, tweede wereldoorlog, interbellum, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Harrington traces the historical change in the politicization of rape as an international problem. In the 1990s, feminist scholars on the politics of rape experienced a sudden surge of interest in their, until then, marginal field. Why was the 1990s the right time for rape to become an international security problem? Furthermore, why suddenly in the 1990s did rape become problematized as an international issue not just by the feminist fringes of protest movements but also by intergovernmental bureaucracies? This book explains how early international women's organizations gained expert authority on rape by drawing on abolitionist rhetoric of bodily integrity, why they abandoned their politicization of rape in the inter-war period and why rape only reappeared as an international security question requiring gender expertise on trauma after the Cold War.
sexuality, reproduction, and women's health in the second wave
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kline, Wendy
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2010
- Thesaurus
- seksualiteit, vrouwenlichamen, geboorteregeling, abortussen, bevallingen, tweede feministische golf, vrouwenbewegingen, 1970-1979, 1980-1989
- Description
- Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. In this book Kline considers the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the female body at the center of women’s liberation. As Kline shows, the struggle to attain this knowledge unified women but also divided them—according to race, class, sexuality, or level of professionalization. Each of the chapters in the book examines a distinct moment or setting of the women’s movement in order to give life to the ideas and expectations by the advocates of women’s health: the making of Our Bodies, Ourselves (1973): the conflicts surrounding the training and practice of women’s pelvic exams: the emergence of abortion as a feminist issue: the battles over contraceptive regulation at the 1983 : and the rise of the profession of midwifery. Including an epilogue that considers the experiences of the daughters of 1970s feminists.