"This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways in which sexual difference can be understood as an encounter with otherness through the abjected, investigating social discourses and unconscious anxieties around 'monstrous' women throughout history and how they …
Muscular women have long been the focus of public scrutiny, cultural contempt and fascination.?Sculpting the Woman? interrogates the protected status of femininity as it has been rendered irrelevant to the history, theory and politics of the muscular woman. This highly original …
Covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume correlates the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th- and early 20th-century China and Japan.
Uniquely covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume aims to correlate the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th and early 20th century China and Japan
Addresses '60s girl group music from the perspective of its most significant audience - teenage girls, drawing on research in psychology and sociology to explore the important place of this repertoire in the emotional development of young girls of the baby boom generation.
"Then He Kissed Me, He's A Rebel, Chains, Stop! In the Name of Love all these songs capture the spirit of an era and an image of 'girlhood' in post-World War II America that still reverberates today. While there were over 1500 girl groups recorded in the '60s - including key hit…
"Then He Kissed Me, He's A Rebel, Chains, Stop! In the Name of Love all these songs capture the spirit of an era and an image of 'girlhood' in post-World War II America that still reverberates today. While there were over 1500 girl groups recorded in the '60s - including key hit…
"Aristotle's account of female nature has received mostly negative treatment, emphasising what he says females cannot do. Building on recent research, this book comprehensively revises such readings, setting out the complex and positive role played by the female in Aristotle's t…
Spurensuche nach unseren weiblichen Wurzeln: Wie lebten die Frauen bei Kelten und Germanen? Göttinnen, weise Frauen, Seherinnen gab es auch in unserem Kulturraum. Luisa Francia beschreibt das weibliche Universum Kelten und Germanen. Wie haben die Frauen gelebt, was war ihnen hei…