Introduction : femininity and film genres -- Freud and classical Hollywood. Freud and the death-mother -- Transformations of the woman's film : or, feminine myths -- Modern horror. Modern horror as the concealed woman's film -- Medusa in the mirror : Brian de Palma's Carrie -- D…
The authors reflect on questions such as: How can a institute such as the IIAV make optimal use of new media? Whose histories are represented in its archives? How can it continue to combine the three core elements of its mission statement - that is, preserving heritage, contribu…
by Keller, Evelyn Fox, Longino, Helen E.
fromOxford readings in feminism
Feministische theorie, gecombineerd met de inzichten van ontwikkelingen in de geschiedenis, de filosofie en de sociologie van de wetenschap hebben een aantal vragen opgeworpen over de inhoud, de praktijk en de traditionele doelstellingen van de natuurwetenschappen. De bijdragen …
"In this collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, award-winning filmmaker and theorist Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, Trinh examines As…
"In this collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, award-winning filmmaker and theorist Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, Trinh examines As…
Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives.
On political activity of women in local government and its relation with oligarchy in Indonesia; collected essays.
The papers collected in this volume address early modern female authorship from the late Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century, ranging geographically from Portugal to Russia, and from Italy to Denmark. In particular, they focus on three themes: the creation of female…
"The rise of cultural studies has raised the profile of 'culture' as a unifying theme in contemporary social theory and research. But does it make sense to regard popular culture as coherent? Is the acceptance of 'postmodern culture' simply an excuse for neglecting to address th…
This book examines the women's movement in Iran and their role in contesting gender relations since the 1979 revolution. Looking at examples from politics, law, employment, environment, media and religion to the struggle for democracy, this book demonstrates how material conditi…
"Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population. There are actually one-hundred-and-two thinkers featured in these pages, as each author is a feminst thinker, too: scholars, writers, poets, and acti…
Criminological research has historically been based on the study of men, boys and crime. As a result, the criminal justice system's development of policies, programs, and treatment regimes was based on the male offender. It was not until the 1970s that some criminologists began …
by Campbell, Gwyn, Miers, Suzanne, Miller, Joseph C., (Joseph Calder)
Women and Slavery focuses on female slaves who probably constituted the considerable majority of those enslaved in Africa, Asia, and Europe over several millennia and who accounted for a greater proportion of the enslaved in the Americas than is customarily acknowledged. Women e…
Bevat begrippen, biografische gegevens en literatuurverwijzingen.
"Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a wider range of crimes. The …
Verzameling artikelen over de ontwikkelingen in lesbische en homostudies. Verschillende disciplines komen aan bod: psychologie, sociologie, geschiedwetendschap, antropologie, recht, politicologie, geografie, literatuurwetenschap, culturele studies, vrouwenstudies, aids-onderzoek…
Ohnuma offers a wide-ranging exploration of the complex role of maternal imagery and discourse in pre-modern South Asian Buddhism. Motherhood was sometimes extolled as the most appropriate symbol for buddhahood itself, and sometimes denigrated as the most paradigmatic manifestat…
