"This book takes a look at the games industry from a gendered perspective and highlights the variety of ways in which women remain underrepresented in this industry"-
"Discusses gender in terms of models generalizing upon received wisdom from historical and cultural sources and lived realities" ... Provided by publisher.
This title links women, sports, and the mass media with feminist perspectives from history, psychology, women's studies, sociology, kinesiology, and mass communication. The volume is divided into three parts: overview and definitions (7 chapters) cultural contexts and gender val…
"The 'New Women' of late nineteenth-century Britain were seen as defying society's conventions. Studying this phenomenon from its origins in the 1870s to the outbreak of the Great War, Gillian Sutherland examines whether women really had the economic freedom to challenge norms r…
"Fair Women was an early example of a Victorian 'blockbuster' exhibition. Organised by a committee of women, it opened to great fanfare in the Grafton Galleries in London, and comprised both historical and contemporary portraits of women as well as decorative objects. Meaghan Cl…
Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them. The essays discuss the female characters in Arthurian legend, medieval and modern readers of the legend, modern critics an…
Fashion Photography and Gender -- Childlike Femininity: A History of Feminist Critique -- Between Image and Spectator: Reception Studies as Visual Methodology -- The Romantic Woman-child, Lost from Home -- Fashion's 'Femme-enfant-fatale': Surrealism, Curiosity and Alice in Wonde…
"When a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught between the pressures of a globalizing economy and societal expectations that villages are sanctuaries of tradition. These women learned quickly to resist the character…
This book analyzes how women's bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-power by examining the history of women's reproductive health in Japan between the seventeenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Yuki Terazawa combines Foucauldian theory and feminist ideas with…
