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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies
Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly
Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a
transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked
experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel,
lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making. In this
book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the
rebellious, feminist Punk audio-visual culture of the 1970s,
tracing its roots and its legacies. In their filmmaking and their
performed personae, film and video artists such as Vivienne Dick,
Sandra Lahire, Betzy Bromberg, Ruth Novaczek, Sadie Benning, Leslie
Thornton, Abigail Child and Anne Robinson offered a powerful,
deliberately awkward alternative to hegemonic conformist
femininity, creating a new "Punk audio visual aesthetic". A vital
aspect of our vibrant contemporary digital audio visual culture,
Garfield argues, can be traced back to the techniques and forms of
these feminist pioneers, who like their musical contemporaries
worked in a pre-digital, analogue modality that nevertheless
influenced the emergent digital audio visual culture of the 1990s
and 2000s.
In the classic Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the 'wild woman', the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power.
For centuries, the 'wild woman' has been repressed by a male-orientated value system which trivialises women's emotions. Using a combination of time-honoured stories and contemporary casework, Estes reveals that the 'wild woman' in us is innately healthy, passionate and wise.
Thoughtfully written and compelling in its arguments, Women Who Run With The Wolves gives readers a new sense of direction, a self confidence and purpose in their lives.
This book examines, through a multi-disciplinary lens, the
possibilities offered by relationships and family forms that
challenge the nuclear family ideal, and some of the arguments that
recommend or disqualify these as legitimate units in our
societies.That children should be conceived naturally, born to and
raised by their two young, heterosexual, married to each other,
genetic parents; that this relationship between parents is also the
ideal relationship between romantic or sexual partners; and that
romance and sexual intimacy ought to be at the core of our closest
personal relationships - all these elements converge towards the
ideal of the nuclear family.The authors consider a range of
relationship and family structures that depart from this ideal:
polyamory and polygamy, single and polyparenting, parenting by gay
and lesbian couples, as well as families created through current
and prospective modes of assisted human reproduction such as
surrogate motherhood, donor insemination, and reproductive
cloning.""
A fascinating look at the lives of women who bore the heat of day
in Christian mission, but who were often forgotten by history until
now.
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France
by Nicholas Shakespeare is a transcendent work of narrative
nonfiction in the vein of The Hare with Amber Eyes.
When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a trunk full of his
late aunt's personal belongings, he was unaware of where this
discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden
past. The glamorous, mysterious figure he remembered from his
childhood was very different from the morally ambiguous young woman
who emerged from the trove of love letters, journals and
photographs, surrounded by suitors and living the precarious
existence of a British citizen in a country controlled by the enemy
during World War II.
As a young boy, Shakespeare had always believed that his aunt
was a member of the Resistance and had been tortured by the
Germans. The truth turned out to be far more complicated.
Piecing together fragments of his aunt's remarkable and tragic
story, Priscilla is at once a stunning story of detection, a loving
portrait of a flawed woman trying to survive in terrible times, and
a spellbinding slice of history.
Susan Dobscha and the authors in this Handbook provide a primer and
resource for scholars and practitioners keen to develop or enhance
their understanding of how gender permeates marketing decisions,
consumer experiences, public policy initiatives, and market
practices. This Handbook's main objective is to provide a roadmap
through the complicated terrain of gender as it pertains to
marketing and consumer behavior. The author also highlights that
the study of gender is not restricted to certain theories, methods,
or approaches. The unifying conclusion is that the study of gender
is an important topic that has not received the attention it
deserves within the marketing discipline; and attention to gender
is crucial now more than ever. This book will give marketing
scholars the guidance they need to incorporate the topic of gender
into their research by highlighting the current conversations that
are taking place in the field of marketing, and more importantly by
illuminating the gap in which more scholarship is necessary to
increase our understanding of gender complexities. Contributors
include: J. Brace-Govan, J. Coffin, C. Coleman, S. Dobscha, J.
Drenten, S. Dunnett, C.A. Eichert, S. Ferguson, L. Gurrieri, R.L.
Harrison, W. Hein, G.H. Knudsen, J. Littlefield, P. Maclaran, A.-I.
Nolke, S. O'Donohoe, J. Ostberg, N.J. Pendarvis, A.S. Rome, M.
Sanghvi, K.C. Sredl, L. Steinfield, L. Stevens, L. Walther, M.
Zawisza, L.T. Zayer
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