Gender expression

Gender and dance in Iran: biopolitics on stage

by Meftahi, Ida, Taylor & Francis

fromIranian studies

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"Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage investigates the ways dancing bodies have been providing evidence for competing representations of modernity, urbanism, and religiosity across the twentieth century. Focusing on the transformation of the staged dancing body,…

Gender and dance in Iran: biopolitics on stage

by Meftahi, Ida

fromIranian studies (London, England)

0 Type: Book

Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage investigates the ways dancing bodies have been providing evidence for competing representations of modernity, urbanism, and religiosity across the twentieth century.Focusing on the transformation of the staged dancing body, i…

Gender and dance in Iran: biopolitics on stage

by Meftahi, Ida

fromIranian studies (London, England)

0 Type: Book

Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage investigates the ways dancing bodies have been providing evidence for competing representations of modernity, urbanism, and religiosity across the twentieth century.Focusing on the transformation of the staged dancing body, i…

Gender and dance in Iran: biopolitics on stage

by Meftahi, Ida

fromIranian studies (London, England)

0 Type: Book

Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage investigates the ways dancing bodies have been providing evidence for competing representations of modernity, urbanism, and religiosity across the twentieth century.Focusing on the transformation of the staged dancing body, i…

A feminist companion to the posthumanities

by Braidotti, Rosi, Åsberg, Cecilia

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This companion is a cutting-edge primer to critical forms of the posthumanities and the feminist posthumanities, aimed at students and researchers who want to catch up with the recent theoretical developments in various fields in the humanities, such as new media studies, gender…

A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities

by Braidotti, Rosi, Åsberg, Cecilia

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This companion is a cutting-edge primer to critical forms of the posthumanities and the feminist posthumanities, aimed at students and researchers who want to catch up with the recent theoretical developments in various fields in the humanities, such as new media studies, gender…

La Mamma: Interrogating a National Stereotype

by Morris, Penelope, Willson, Perry

fromItalian and Italian American studies

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The idea of the "mamma italiana" is one of the most widespread and recognizable stereotypes in perceptions of Italian national character both within and beyond Italy. This figure makes frequent appearances in jokes and other forms of popular culture, but it has also been seen as…

The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union

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This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapters extend the geographic…

A History of the Girl: Formation, Education and Identity

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This book is centered on the history of the girl from the medieval period through to the early twenty-first century. Authored by an international team of scholars, the volume explores the transition from adolescent girlhood to young womanhood, the formation and education of girl…

Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690-1945

by Terazawa, Yuki

fromGenders and sexualities in history

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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…

Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War

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This transnational, interdisciplinary study of traumatic neurosis moves beyond the existing histories of medical theory, welfare, and symptomatology. The essays explore the personal traumas of soldiers and civilians in the wake of the First World War; they also discuss how memor…

Queering contemporary gothic narrative 1970-2012

by Palmer, Paulina

fromPalgrave Gothic Series

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"The book explores the development of queer Gothic fiction, contextualizing it with reference to representations of queer sexuality and genders in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic, as well as the sexual-political perspectives generated by the 1970s lesbian and gay libera…

The Palgrave international handbook of women and outdoor learning

fromPalgrave Studies in Gender and Education

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This Handbook serves as a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of women in outdoor learning environments (OLEs). Women choose to participate actively in outdoors careers, many believing the profession is a level playing field and that it offers alt…

Where the millennials will take us: a new generation wrestles with the gender structu…

by Risman, Barbara J.

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"Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In 'Where the Millennials Will Take Us', Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Using her theory of gender as a social structure, Risman analyzes li…

Where the millennials will take us: a new generation wrestles with the gender structu…

by Risman, Barbara J.

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"Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Risman offers a revision of her theory of gender as a social structure…

Where the millennials will take us: a new generation wrestles with the gender structu…

by Risman, Barbara J.

0 Type: Book

"Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Risman offers a revision of her theory of gender as a social structure…