Caged Women

Author : Shirley A. Jackson,Laurie L. Gordy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351582698

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Caged Women by Shirley A. Jackson,Laurie L. Gordy Pdf

The Netflix series Orange is the New Black has drawn widespread attention to many of the dysfunctions of prisons and the impact prisons have on those who live and work behind the prison gates. This anthology deepens this public awareness through scholarship on the television program and by exploring the real-world social, psychological, and legal issues female prisoners face. Each chapter references a particular connection to the Netflix series as its starting point of analysis. The book brings together scholars to consider both media representations as well as the social justice issues for female inmates alluded to in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. The chapters address myriad issues including cultural representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality; social justice issues for transgender inmates; racial dynamics within female prisons; gender and female prison structures/policies; treatment of women in prison; re-incarcerated and previously incarcerated women; self and identity; gender, race, and sentencing; and reproduction and parenting for female inmates.

Author : Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780743288347

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The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Pdf

A collection of essays by a Muslim-born screenwriter and Dutch Parliamentarian who has been threatened for her efforts to secure women's rights criticizes the treatment of Muslim women and the western world's foreign policies, in a volume complemented by her script, Submission. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Author : Victoria McCollum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351016490

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Make America Hate Again by Victoria McCollum Pdf

Horror films have traditionally sunk their teeth into straitened times, reflecting, expressing and validating the spirit of the epoch, and capitalising on the political and cultural climate in which they are made. This book shows how the horror genre has adapted itself to the transformation of contemporary American politics and the mutating role of traditional and new media in the era of Donald Trump’s Presidency of the United States. Exploring horror’s renewed potential for political engagement in a socio-political climate characterised by the angst of civil conflict, the deception of ‘alternative facts’ and the threat of nuclear or biological conflict and global warming, Make America Hate Again examines the intersection of film, politics, and American culture and society through a bold critical analysis of popular horror (films, television shows, podcasts and online parodies), such as 10 Cloverfield Lane, American Horror Story, Don’t Breathe, Get Out, Hotel Transylvania 2, Hush, It, It Comes at Night, South Park, The Babadook, The Walking Dead, The Woman, The Witch and Twin Peaks: The Return. The first major exploration of the horror genre through the lens of the Trump era, it investigates the correlations between recent, culturally meaningful horror texts, and the broader culture within which they have become gravely significant. Offering a rejuvenating, optimistic, and positive perspective on popular culture as a site of cultural politics, Make America Hate Again will appeal to scholars and students of American studies, film and media studies, and cultural studies.

Author : Alev Cinar,Srirupa Roy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472071180

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Visualizing Secularism and Religion by Alev Cinar,Srirupa Roy Pdf

An investigation of the role of religion in the formation of secular-national public spheres in the Middle East and South Asia

Author : Jodie Michelle Lawston,Ashley E. Lucas
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438435336

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Razor Wire Women by Jodie Michelle Lawston,Ashley E. Lucas Pdf

Offering nuanced portraits of women's lives inside razor wire and prison walls, Razor Wire Women puts incarcerated women in dialogue with scholars, artists, educators and activists who live outside of prisons but work on issues connected to the prison industrial complex. Women make up the fastest-growing group of the U.S. prison population, yet prison scholarship largely overlooks the struggles of incarcerated women, and their voices are often silenced both in and out of the prison infrastructure. From the vantage points of those both inside and outside of prisons, this collection of essays and art illuminates many of the distinct experiences and concerns of incarcerated women, including those of girls in prison, abuse and rape, the policing of women, incarcerated motherhood, mental health issues in prisons, incarcerated women's artistic and cultural production, and prisons' impact on families, health, and sexuality. Combining the transcendence, hope and clarity of art with powerful analytical and conceptual tools, Razor Wire Women reveals the gendered dimensions of the incarceration now experienced by a growing number of women in the U.S.

Author : Martha McCaughey,Neal King
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292778375

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Reel Knockouts by Martha McCaughey,Neal King Pdf

When Thelma and Louise outfought the men who had tormented them, women across America discovered what male fans of action movies have long known—the empowering rush of movie violence. Yet the duo's escapades also provoked censure across a wide range of viewers, from conservatives who felt threatened by the up-ending of women's traditional roles to feminists who saw the pair's use of male-style violence as yet another instance of women's co-option by the patriarchy. In the first book-length study of violent women in movies, Reel Knockouts makes feminist sense of violent women in films from Hollywood to Hong Kong, from top-grossing to direct-to-video, and from cop-action movies to X-rated skin flicks. Contributors from a variety of disciplines analyze violent women's respective places in the history of cinema, in the lives of viewers, and in the feminist response to male violence against women. The essays in part one, "Genre Films," turn to film cycles in which violent women have routinely appeared. The essays in part two, "New Bonds and New Communities," analyze movies singly or in pairs to determine how women's movie brutality fosters solidarity amongst the characters or their audiences. All of the contributions look at films not simply in terms of whether they properly represent women or feminist principles, but also as texts with social contexts and possible uses in the re-construction of masculinity and femininity.

Author : Walter Greatshell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101477281

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Xombies: Apocalypso by Walter Greatshell Pdf

A group of women have been discovered who are immune to the Agent X plague. The secret of their immunity can provide a cure for human and inhuman alike-unless the Xombies find them first.

Author : Alison Darren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441183644

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Lesbian Film Guide by Alison Darren Pdf

This A-Z guide to lesbians and lesbianism in the movies contains reviews, gossip, facts and commentary on over 200 films, including specifically lesbian films such as "Go Fish" and "Desert Hearts" as well as films with a lesbian character or theme, like "The Children's Hour" and "The Hunger".

Author : Seminar on Feminism & Culture in Latin America
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520909076

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Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America by Seminar on Feminism & Culture in Latin America Pdf

The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women’s participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century.

Author : Edward Frederic Benson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : English fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:32044037304763

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The Vintage by Edward Frederic Benson Pdf

Nauplia, huddled together on the edge of its glittering bay, and grilled beneath the hot stress of the midsummer noon, stood silent as a city of the dead. Down the middle of the main street, leading up from the quay to the square, lay a scorching ribbon of sunshine, and the narrow strips of shadow, sharp cut and blue, spoke of the South. Along one side of the square ran the barracks of the Turkish garrison of occupation, two-storied buildings of brown stone, solid but airless, and faced with a line of arcade. These contained the three companies of men who were stationed in the town itself, less fortunate in this oven of heat than the main part of the garrison who held the airier fortress of Palamede behind, overlooking the plain from a height of five hundred feet.

Author : Victoria Bateman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509526802

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The Sex Factor by Victoria Bateman Pdf

Why did the West become so rich? Why is inequality rising? How ‘free’ should markets be? And what does sex have to do with it? In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of our time if we put sex and gender – ‘the sex factor’ – at the heart of the picture. Spanning the globe and drawing on thousands of years of history, Bateman tells a bold story about how the status and freedom of women are central to our prosperity. Genuine female empowerment requires us not only to recognize the liberating potential of markets and smart government policies but also to challenge the double-standard of many modern feminists when they celebrate the brain while denigrating the body. This iconoclastic book is a devastating exposé of what we have lost from ignoring ‘the sex factor’ and of how reversing this neglect can drive the smart economic policies we need today.

Author : Peter Robson,Jennifer L Schulz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509905706

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A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV by Peter Robson,Jennifer L Schulz Pdf

This collection examines law and justice on television in different countries around the world. It provides a benchmark for further study of the nature and extent of television coverage of justice in fictional, reality and documentary forms. It does this by drawing on empirical work from a range of scholars in different jurisdictions. Each chapter looks at the raw data of how much "justice" material viewers were able to access in the multi-channel world of 2014 looking at three phases: apprehension (police), adjudication (lawyers), and disposition (prison/punishment). All of the authors indicate how television developed in their countries. Some have extensive public service channels mixed with private media channels. Financing ranges from advertising to programme sponsorship to licensing arrangements. A few countries have mixtures of these. Each author also examines how "TV justice" has developed in their own particular jurisdiction. Readers will find interesting variations and thought-provoking similarities. There are a lot of television shows focussed on legal themes that are imported around the world. The authors analyse these as well. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in law, popular culture, TV, or justice and provides an important addition to the literature due to its grounding in empirical data.

Author : Christina Greene
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469671321

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Free Joan Little by Christina Greene Pdf

Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women's section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black, and in trouble. After turning herself in, Little faced a possible death sentence in the state's gas chamber. At her trial, which was followed around the world, Little claimed that she had killed Alligood in self-defense against sexual assault. Local and national figures took up Little's cause, protesting her innocence. After a five-week trial, Little was acquitted. But the case stirred debate about a woman's right to use deadly force to resist sexual violence. Through the prism of Little's rape-murder trial and the Free Joan Little campaign, Christina Greene explores the intersecting histories of African American women, mass incarceration, sexual violence, and social movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Greene argues that Little's circumstances prior to her arrest, assault, and trial were shaped by unprecedented increases in federal financing of local law enforcement and a decades-long criminalization of Blackness. She also reveals tensions among Little's defenders and recovers Black women's intersectional politics of the period, which linked women's prison protest and antirape activism with broader struggles for economic and political justice.

Author : Love Lazarus Sechrest
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467465373

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Race and Rhyme by Love Lazarus Sechrest Pdf

A leading womanist biblical scholar reads passages from the New Testament in dialogue with modern-day issues of racial justice. The narratives and letters of the New Testament emerged from a particular set of historical contexts that differ from today’s, but they resonate with us because of how the issues they raise “rhyme” with subjects of contemporary relevance. Listening for these echoes of the present in the past, Love Sechrest utilizes her cultural experience and her perspective as a Black woman scholar to reassess passages in the New Testament that deal with intergroup conflict, ethnoracial tension, and power dynamics between dominant and minoritized groups. After providing an overview of womanist biblical interpretation and related terminology, Sechrest utilizes an approach she calls “associative hermeneutics” to place select New Testament texts in dialogue with modern-day issues of racial justice. Topics include: antiracist allyship and Jesus’s interaction with marginalized individuals in the Gospel of Matthew cultural assimilation and Jesus’s teachings about family and acceptance in the Gospel of Luke gendered stereotypes and the story of the Samaritan woman in the Gospel of John the experience of Black women and girls in the American criminal justice system and the woman accused of adultery in the Gospel of John group identity and the incorporation of Gentiles into the early Jesus movement in Acts privilege and Paul’s claims to apostolic authority in 2 Corinthians coalition-building between diverse groups and the discussion of unity in Ephesians government’s role in providing social welfare and early Christians’ relationship to the Roman Empire in Romans and Revelation Through these creative and illuminating connections, Sechrest offers a rich bounty of new insights from Scripture—drawing out matters of justice and human dignity that spoke to early Christians and can speak still to Christians willing to listen today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433088286830

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Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine by Anonim Pdf