Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture

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Pub. Date: 2009-05-21
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary

Doing Gender in Media, Art, and Culture presents cutting-edge feminist scholarship according to an attractive, pedagogically rich format which makes use of the stories of feminist heroines (so-called 'woman warriors'). Ideal text for students specialising in gender studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Debates
The Arena of Feminism: Simone de Beauvoir and the History of Feminism
The Arena of the Body: The Cyborg and Feminist Views on Biology
The Arena of Knowledge: Antigone and Feminist Standpoint Thinking
The Arena of Disciplines: Gloria Anzaldúa and Interdisciplinarity
The Arena of Imaginings: Sarah Bartmann and the Ethics of Representation
The Arena of the Colony: Phoolan Devi and Postcolonial Critique
The Arena of Sexuality: the Tomboy and Queer Studies renée c. hoogland
Disciplines
The Crucifixion of Madonna and the Woman's Body in Feminist Theology
The Rising of Mary Magdalene in Feminist Art History
Cindy Sherman Confronting Feminism and (Fashion) Photography
The 11. Peter Pan's Gender and Feminist Theatre Studies
Lara Croft, Kill Bill and the Battle for Theory in Feminist Film Studies
Hacking Barbie in Feminist New Media Studies
Gender, history and the Politics of Florence Nightingale
Hélène Swarth and the Construction of Masculinity in Literary Criticism
Food for Thought
Dympna and the Figuration of the Woman Warrior
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