Women Writing Across Cultures

Women Writing Across Cultures
Author: Pelagia Goulimari
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 795
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1351586262

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This collection brings together an international, multicultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners in different media seeking to question and re-theorize the contested terms of our title: “woman,” “writing,” “women’s writing,” and “across.” “Culture” is translated into an open series of interconnected terms and questions. How might one write across national cultures; or across a national and a minority culture; or across disciplines, genres, and media; or across synchronic discourses that are unequal in power; or across present and past discourses or present and future discourses? The collection explores and develops recent feminist, queer, and transgender theory and criticism, and also aesthetic practice. “Writing across” assumes a number of orientations: posthumanist; transtemporal; transnationalist; writing across discourses, disciplines, media, genres, genders; writing across pronouns – he, she, they; writing across literature, non-literary texts, and life. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

UGC NET JRF Women's Studies

UGC NET JRF Women's Studies
Author: Neha Goyal
Publisher: Educreation Publishing
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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This book is written especially for UGC NET Women Studies preparation and it is a compilation of author’s self made notes prepared while preparing for this exam. This book contains 18 chapters. First 16 chapters covers topics like Women studies and its evolution, Feminism and its various types, Indian constitution and Women, Organizations for or by women, Concepts and theories, International conferences and conventions, Pioneer Women in various fields, Schemes and policies for Women etc. This Book contains all the major topics required to be studied by the students and 12 sets of UGC NET Women studies question papers (paper II and paper III) from June 2015 to Nov 2017 with UGC answer keys in last two chapters. The best thing about this book is its current affairs which are properly updated and arranged in chronological order. In addition it also contains some quotations of famous Women’s rights activists and the list of books of some of the famous authors. It also includes recent campaigns and social movements related to women’s issues. It is based on new pattern of examination and new emerging issues being asked in examination.

Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s

Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s
Author: Forster Laurel Forster
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2020-09-21
Genre: Women's periodicals, English
ISBN: 1474470009

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Foregrounds the diversity of periodicals, fiction and other printed matter targeted at women in the postwar periodForegrounds the diversity and the significance of print cultures for women in the postwar period across periodicals, fiction and other printed matterExamines changes and continuities as women's magazines have moved into digital formatsHighlights the important cultural and political contexts of women's periodicals including the Women's Liberation Movement and SocialismExplores the significance of women as publishers, printers and editorsWomen's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s draws attention to the wide range of postwar print cultures for women. The collection spans domestic, cultural and feminist magazines and extends to ephemera, novels and other printed matter as well as digital magazine formats. The range of essays indicates both the history of publishing for women and the diversity of readers and audiences over the mid-late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century in Britain. The collection reflects in detail the important ways in magazines and printed matter contributed to, challenged, or informed British women's culture. A range of approaches, including interview, textual analysis and industry commentary are employed in order to demonstrate the variety of ways in which the impact of postwar print media may be understood.

The Vagenda

The Vagenda
Author: Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Feminism
ISBN: 9781784700430

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HAVE YOU EVERa Obsessed over your body's 'problem areas'? Killed an hour on the Sidebar of Shame? Wondered whether to try '50 Sex Tips to Please Your Man'? Felt worse after doing any of the above? Holly and Rhiannon grew up reading glossy mags and, like most women, thought of them as just a bit of fun. But over time they started to feel uneasy - not just about magazines, but about music videos, page 3, and women being labelled frigid, princesses or tramps. So, following the amazing success of their Vagenda blog, they wrote this book. Welcome to your indispensable guide to the madness of women's media.

In Search of Pharrell Williams

In Search of Pharrell Williams
Author: Paul Lester
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2015-08-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1783235314

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First substantial overview of the life and career of Pharrell Williams, the foremost producer of the modern era, and performer in his own right. It follows him from his days growing up in Virginia, his meeting with musical partner Chad Hugo and formation of The Neptunes, through his collaborations with the great and the good of pop, rap and R&B, including Jay-Z, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Snoop Dogg, Gwen Stefani, Nelly and Kelis. It assesses his ground-breaking work with the radical rap-rock-pop band N*E*R*D, and his emergence as a solo superstar via Daft Punk's Get Lucky, Robin Thicke's controversial Blurred Lines and global mega-hit Happy. It delves behind the immaculate facade to find out what makes Williams one of the most driven and inventive musicians of the last 20 years.

Willful Girls

Willful Girls
Author: Emily Jeremiah
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1640140085

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Explores the process of becoming woman through an analysis of the depiction of girls and young women in contemporary Anglo-American and German literary texts.

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism
Author: Tasha Oren
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2019-05-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317542630

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Feminism as a method, a movement, a critique, and an identity has been the subject of debates, contestations and revisions in recent years, yet contemporary global developments and political upheavals have again refocused feminism’s collective force. What is feminism now? How do scholars and activists employ contemporary feminism? What feminist traditions endure? Which are no longer relevant in addressing contemporary global conditions? In this interdisciplinary collection, scholars reflect on how contemporary feminism has shaped their thinking and their field as they interrogate its uses, limits, and reinventions. Organized as a set of questions over definition, everyday life, critical intervention, and political activism, the Handbook takes on a broad set of issues and points of view to consider what feminism is today and what current forces shape its future development. It also includes an extended conversation among major feminist thinkers about the future of feminist scholarship and activism. The scholars gathered here address a wide variety of topics and contexts: activism from post-Soviet collectives to the Arab spring, to the #MeToo movement, sexual harassment, feminist art, film and digital culture, education, technology, policy, sexual practices and gender identity. Indispensable for scholars undergraduate and postgraduate students in women, gender, and sexuality, the collection offers a multidimensional picture of the diversity and utility of feminist thought in an age of multiple uncertainties.

The Booby Trap and Other Bits and Boobs

The Booby Trap and Other Bits and Boobs
Author: Dawn O'Porter
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2013-09-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 147140143X

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In aid of breast cancer charities. A collection of stories from famous names with one thing in common - boobs! Knockers, baps, bazoomas and hooters - big ones, small ones, man boobs, boob jobs and lopsided lady lumps - every boob tells a story. From teenage diaries that will make you laugh out loud and squirm with embarrassment, to heart-breaking first-hand celebrity confessions, journalist and author Dawn O'Porter is joined by celebrities such as Caitlin Moran, Chris O'Dowd, Jameela Jamil and Sarah Millican in a big book of all things booby. Bestselling authors also contribute with writing from Maureen Johnson, Marian Keyes, Patrick Ness, Laura Dockrill, James Dawson, Will Hill, Maude Apatow and Benjamin Zephaniah. This is a full-frontal insight into breasts, nips, pecs and all the other bits and boobs.

Gender Representation in Learning Materials

Gender Representation in Learning Materials
Author: Abolaji S. Mustapha
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317653246

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Representations of gender in learning materials convey an implicit message to students about attitudes towards culturally appropriate gender roles for women and men. This collection takes a linguistic approach to exploring theories about gender representation within the sphere of education and textbooks, and their effects on readers and students within an international context. In the opening section, contributors discuss theories of representation and effect, challenging the conventional Althusserian model of interpellation, and acknowledging the challenges of applying Western feminist models within an international context. Following chapters provide detailed analyses focusing on a number of different countries: Australia, Japan, Brazil, Finland, Russia, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Germany, Qatar, Tanzania, and Poland. Through linguistic analysis of vocabulary associated with women and men, content analysis of what women and men say in textbooks, and discourse analysis of the types of linguistic moves associated with women and men, contributors evaluate the extent to which gendered representations in textbooks perpetuate stereotypical gender roles, what the impact may be on learners, and the ways that both teachers and learners interact and engage with these texts.