Romancing the Tomes : Popular Culture, Law and Feminism 9781843144830, 9781859417232

This provocative collection of essays by scholars from the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand explores the uneasy rel

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Romancing the Tomes : Popular Culture, Law and Feminism
9781843144830, 9781859417232

The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various phil

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When the term “postfeminism” entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines ab

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Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other explores the varied representations of Other

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From The Nun's Story to The Flying Nun to The Singing Nun, nuns were a major presence in the mainstream media. Sull

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Drawing on numerous examples from popular culture, Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the relationship between popular feminism

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Bringing a lively and accessible style to a complex subject, "Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls" explores the idea of t

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How aunts in modern culture shape and subvert the traditional role of women

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From The Nun's Story to The Flying Nun to The Singing Nun, nuns were a major presence in the mainstream media. Sull

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Editorial amazon.com Reviews Common terms and phrases: actress Addison aesthetic amusement analysis art and popular art

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Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women’s history seriously. But the very concept of wom

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