Untaming Girlhoods

Author : Cristina Santos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429958274

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Untaming Girlhoods by Cristina Santos Pdf

This is an interdisciplinary examination of depictions of girlhoods through a comparative study of foundational fairy tales revised and reimagined in popular narrative, film, and television adaptations. The success of franchises such as The Hunger Games, Twilight and Divergence have re-presented the young heroine as an empowered female, and often a warrior hero in her own right. Through a selection of popular culture touchstones this empowerment is questioned as a manipulation of feminist ideals of equality and a continuation of the traditional vision of female awakening centering on issues of personal choice, agency, physical violence, purity, and beauty. By investigating re-occurring storytelling frameworks and archetypes, Untaming Girlhoods examines different portrayals of girlhoods in the 20th- and 21st-century Anglo-American cultural imaginary that configure modern girlhoods, beyond the fairy-tale princess or the damsel in distress, into refigurations that venture away from the well-trodden path for a new breakaway path to authentic selfhood. This will be a useful and enlightening text for students and researchers in Girlhood Studies, Gender Studies, Film Studies, Popular Culture and Media Studies.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040014318

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Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture by Simon Bacon Pdf

Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books. These contemporary ‘final’ girls do not just survive but rather suggest that in doing so they have fundamentally changed something about themselves and or the world around them, seeing them become the ‘First Girls’ of this altered reality. The collection brings together a wide range of perspectives and cultural viewpoints that describe many recent narratives that explore the idea of a Final Girl and her “after-story”. The essays are divided into four sections, beginning with more theoretical approaches; cross-cultural examples; the ways in which fictional narratives bear strong relation to real-world circumstances; examples that more strongly depict themes of resistance, survival, and individual agency; and, finally, those that describe something more fundamental and transformative. Films and television shows covered in the collection include The Girl with All the Gifts, The Witcher, The Hunger Games, Star Wars, The Fear Street and Pan’s Labyrinth. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of film studies, gender studies, and media studies.

Author : Eleanor Drage
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000923209

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The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s Science Fiction by Eleanor Drage Pdf

The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s Science Fiction argues that utopian science fiction written by European women has, since the seventeenth century, played an important role in exploring the racial and gender possibilities of the outer limits of the humanist imagination. This book focuses on six works of science fiction from the UK, France, Spain, and Italy: Jennifer Marie Brissett’s Elysium; Nicoletta Vallorani’s Sulla Sabbia di Sur and Il Cuore Finto di DR; Aliette de Bodard’s Xuya Universe series; Elia Barcelo’s Consecuencias Naturales; and Historias del Crazy Bar, a collection of stories by Lola Robles and Maria Concepcion Regueiro. It sets these in conversation with key gender and critical race scholars: Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Gilroy, and Jack Halberstam. It asserts that a key concern for feminism, anti- racism, and science fiction now is to seek inventive ways of returning to the question of the human in the context of increasing racial and gender divisions. Offering unique access to contemporary and historical women writers who have mobilised the utopian imagination to rethink the human, this book is of use to those conducting research in Gender Studies, Philosophy, History, and Literature.

Author : Anna Kristina Hultgren,Pejman Habibie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000937848

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Women in Scholarly Publishing by Anna Kristina Hultgren,Pejman Habibie Pdf

Women in Scholarly Publishing explores the under-researched topic of gender and scholarly publishing. Whilst often considered separately, the relationship between gender and scholarly publishing has been neglected. Bringing together experts across Applied Linguistics, this book brings to the fore the challenges and opportunities faced by female academics in both Anglophone and non-Anglophone contexts as they participate in the production and dissemination of knowledge. Contributors show how female scholars’ production and dissemination of knowledge intersects with gendered structures and disciplinary cultures in complex ways. The key strands of work which this volume seeks to bring together include: Essentialism in gender studies and alternative perspectives on how gender should be viewed and studied in knowledge production and dissemination; the specific ways in which the labour and conditions surrounding scholarly publication are gendered or perceived as gendered; the examination of discourses, texts and genres from a gender perspective and the continuing gendered and gendering impacts on career trajectories of women academics. While women’s barriers are documented across geopolities, the book also shows how norms, policies and practices can be challenged and alternative futures imagined. The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, institutional decision makers, writing mentors, early-career scholars and graduate students in a variety of fields.

Author : Mary McAlpin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000842166

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The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France by Mary McAlpin Pdf

This book argues that rape as we know it was invented in the eighteenth century, examining texts as diverse as medical treatises, socio-political essays, and popular novels to demonstrate how cultural assumptions of gendered sexual desire erased rape by making a woman’s non-consent a logical impossibility. The Enlightenment promotion of human sexuality as natural and desirable required a secularized narrative for how sexual violence against women functioned. Novel biomedical and historical theories about the "natural" sex act worked to erase the concept of heterosexual rape. McAlpin intervenes in a far-ranging assortment of scholarly disciplines to survey and demonstrate how rape was rationalized: the history of medicine, the history of sexuality, the development of the modern self, the social contractarian tradition, the global eighteenth century, and the libertine tradition in the eighteenth-century novel. This intervention will be essential reading to students and scholars in gender studies, literature, cultural studies, visual studies, and the history of sexuality.

Author : Jose Antonio Langarita,Ana Cristina Santos,Marisela Montenegro,Mojca Urek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000841459

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Child-Friendly Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Diversity by Jose Antonio Langarita,Ana Cristina Santos,Marisela Montenegro,Mojca Urek Pdf

This book discusses LGBTI+ childhood from a critical, interdisciplinary perspective with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of the complex relationship between sexuality, gender and childhood. Placing adultcentrism at the centre of the analytical inquiry, the international range of contributors consider experiences and subjectivities of children, their families and significant contexts. Topics covered include public policies, professional practices and care provision, as well as the tensions and contradictions stemming from the logics of otherness and exceptionality which populate dominant discourses, representations and practices around sex and gender in childhood. This book is intended for researchers and students in gender studies, sexuality studies, education, health, childhood studies and sociology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Girls
ISBN : 155614511X

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Girlhood by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jennifer Flaherty,Heather C. Easterling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350138209

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The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play by Jennifer Flaherty,Heather C. Easterling Pdf

The Taming of the Shrew has puzzled, entertained and angered audiences, and it has been reinvented many times throughout its controversial history. Offering a focused overview of key emerging ideas and discourses surrounding Shakespeare's problematic comedy, the volume reveals and debates how contemporary readings and adaptions of the play have sought to reconsider and resolve the play's contentious portrayal of gender, power and identity. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers and researchers. Key themes and issues include: · Gender and Power · History and Early Modern Contexts · Performance and Politics · Adaptation and Afterlife All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about The Taming of the Shrew.

Author : D. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137024763

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Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood by D. Williams Pdf

This is the first scholarly study devoted to Shakespeare's girl characters and conceptions of girlhood. It charts the development of Shakespeare's treatment of the girl as a dramatic and literary figure, and explores the impact of Shakespeare's girl characters on the history of early modern girls as performers, patrons, and authors.

Author : Professor Valerie Sanders
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409472117

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Records of Girlhood by Professor Valerie Sanders Pdf

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Valerie Sanders again brings together an influential group of women whose autobiographical accounts of their childhoods show them making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The fourteen women included juxtapose recollections of the bizarre with the quotidian and accounts of external events with the development of a complex inner life. Reading and acting are important themes, as is the precariousness of childhood, whether occasioned by a father's financial pressures or the early death of a parent. Significantly, most grew up expecting to earn their own living. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit), political figures (Emmeline Pankhurst and Louisa Twining), and well-known writers (Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sarah Grand). Of relevance to scholars working in the fields of women’s autobiography, the history of childhood, and Victorian literature, this anthology includes a scholarly introduction and brief biographical sketches of each woman.

Author : Miriam Forman-Brunell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576075500

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Girlhood in America [2 volumes] by Miriam Forman-Brunell Pdf

This groundbreaking reference work presents more than 100 articles by 98 high-profile interdisciplinary scholars, covering all aspects of girls' roles in American society, past and present. In this comprehensive, readable, two volume encyclopedia, experts from a variety of disciplines contribute pieces to the puzzle of what it means—and what it has meant over the last 400 years—to be a girl in America. The portrait that emerges reveals deep differences in girls' experiences depending on socioeconomic context, religious and ethnic traditions, family life, schools, institutions, and the messages of consumer and popular culture. Girls have been commodified, idealized, trivialized, eroticized, and shaped by the powerful forces of popular culture, from Little Women to Barbie. Yet girls are also powerful co-creators of the culture that shapes them, often cleverly subverting it to their own purposes. From Pocahantas to punk rockers, girls have been an integral, if overlooked and undervalued, part of American culture.

Author : Jennifer Higginbotham
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748655939

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Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters by Jennifer Higginbotham Pdf

The first book-length study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'.

Author : MARY COWDEN CLARKE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines. by MARY COWDEN CLARKE Pdf

Author : K. Moruzi,M. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137356352

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Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 by K. Moruzi,M. Smith Pdf

Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood.

Author : Valerie Sanders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134933686

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Records of Girlhood by Valerie Sanders Pdf

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Valerie Sanders again brings together an influential group of women whose autobiographical accounts of their childhoods show them making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The fourteen women included juxtapose recollections of the bizarre with the quotidian and accounts of external events with the development of a complex inner life. Reading and acting are important themes, as is the precariousness of childhood, whether occasioned by a father's financial pressures or the early death of a parent. Significantly, most grew up expecting to earn their own living. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit), political figures (Emmeline Pankhurst and Louisa Twining), and well-known writers (Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sarah Grand). Of relevance to scholars working in the fields of women’s autobiography, the history of childhood, and Victorian literature, this anthology includes a scholarly introduction and brief biographical sketches of each woman.