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- 1From:Sou'wester (Vol. 38, Issue 2)You know her a little from chance meetings. Good to avoid, you think. Yoga instructor. Therapist. Wearer of Celtic knots, attesting To theories risen from sticks on a February morning When winter winds down on its...
- 2From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe present article examines the way Zakia Tahiri's film Number One (2009) foregrounds a renewed understanding of gender and gender relations in contemporary Morocco, especially in the wake of the New Family Code Reform...
- 3From:Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores the public persona of hip hop artist Nicki Minaj, and her appropriation of the iconic Barbie doll. Minaj's image has drawn criticism from pundits and peers alike, but, nonetheless, it has inspired...
- 4From:Sexuality and Culture (Vol. 15, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA number of journalists and scholars have pointed to the sexual objectification of women and men in popular media to argue that Western culture has become "sexualized" or even "pornified." Yet it is not clear whether...
- 5From:Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNicole Landry. 2008. The Mean Girl Motive: Negotiating Power and Femininity. Halifax: Fernwood Books. The "mean girl" has attracted much popular and (quasi-) expert attention in recent years. With "mean girls"...
- 6From:Studia Psychologica: Journal for Basic Research in Psychological Sciences (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe study is focused on cognitive representations of a hierarchical and competitive world in male and female expectations. Framed by social cognitive views of psychological interdependence (Deutsch, 1985), four measures...
- 7From:Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Alpha Girls: Understanding the New American Girl and How She is Changing the World, psychologist Dan Kindlon (2006) claims that the new psychology of girls has produced a dramatically different kind of girl from her...
- 8From:Hebrew Studies (Vol. 47) Peer-ReviewedThe thesis of the article is that Haifa's semiotic composition, as displayed in Yehudit Katzir's first story "Disneyel" (1987), endows additional meaning to the narrative structuring on both the thematic and linguistic...
- 9From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 7, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract 'all the ways ...' was written for a Women's Studies module--'Identity, Difference and the Body'. This module explored feminist perspectives on the nature/culture divide and the production of sexed, gendered...
- 10From:MAKE: The Magazine of Women's Art (Issue 77) Peer-ReviewedAbout four years ago, I noticed that the fairly serious and moralistic tone dealing with boys and femininity within the pages of teenage magazines was increasingly replaced by humour and irony. In Britain, changes were...
- 11From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe last decades of the twentieth century witnessed a revived interest in the writings of eighteenth-century women, beginning with attempts to recover these women and their works from obscurity Dale Spender's Mothers of...
- 12From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 13, Issue 2-3)from First New York 2013 The wind blows without notice, anywhere in our city far beyond, The colonial film goes on for so many uncountable decades. We all talk without really saying anything, just the same talk...
- 13From:MAKE: The Magazine of Women's Art (Issue 84) Peer-ReviewedAn article in the Evening Standard on 12th January this year described the major concern of the latest recruit to The Doll's House (Bravo's website: www bravo, co.uk) as having to face the world (the site claims to have...
- 14From:Armenian Review (Vol. 56 -2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWoman is understood in Armenia as always in relation to male kin. For many feminists in the Republic, this has not only robbed her of the possibilities of a public image in which she can be seen as a being who has her...
- 15From:Woman's Art Journal (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe creator of the colorful and playful Nanas, that are "neither intimidated nor repressed by their lives or by men," (1) was Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930-2002). For her entire career, Saint-Phalle focused on the...
- 16From:English in Africa (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA number of South African women writers have taken up chick-lit as a form of writing that enables them to reflect on the experiences of the modern woman in post-apartheid South Africa. The protagonists portrayed in...
- 17From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen Tiara Lestari posed naked in Spanish Playboy magazine in the August 2005 edition, only few people actually knew her. She had been working mainly abroad. However, the publication immediately created waves of...
- 18From:Acta Linguistica Hungarica (Vol. 60, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: The aim of this paper is to report on an experiment designed to evaluate the perception of high frequency sibilant articulations in Hungarian male speech and to theorise on the results. The main findings of...
- 19From:International Journal for Equity in Health (Vol. 10) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The importance of gender in understanding health practices and illness experiences is increasingly recognized, and key to this work is a better understanding of the application of gender relations. The...
- 20From:Women and Language (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo study how people weigh information when judging their own and others' masculinity-femininity (M-F), the author asked 170 male and 205 female participants to rate themselves and their best friends on M-F,...