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"This volume brings together twenty original essays on the changes and continuities in gender relations and intersecting politics of sexuality, race, class and location. The book is located in debates about contemporary culture at a moment of rapid technological change, global interconnectedness and the growing cultural dominance of neoliberalism and postfeminism. The collection traverses disciplines, spaces and approaches. It is marked by an extraordinarily wide focus, ranging from analyses of celebrity magazines and makeover shows to examinations of the experiences of young female migrants, 'mail order brides' and young women who repudiate feminism. The contributions are united by their attempts to think through the ways in which experiences and representations of femininity are changing in the twenty-first century. Are we seeing new femininities? Are neoliberalism and postfeminism constructing new identities and subjectivities? What kinds of analytic tools and cultural politics are needed to critically engage with the current moment? This book will be of interest to everyone studying gender, media or cultural studies"--

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Femininity. --- Feminist theory. --- Neoliberalism. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- Social science / feminism & feminist theory. --- Social science / women's studies. --- Social science / media studies. --- Social science / popular culture. --- Feminism --- Homosexuality --- Female homosexuality --- Media --- Girls --- Popular culture --- Sex work --- Sexuality --- Appearance --- Féminité --- Book

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This text studies the relationship between women, ageing, and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it examines the powerful, contradictory, and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture offers a crucial site for the contemporary and historical construction of discourses on ageing femininities.

Aging in mass media. --- Altern. --- Berühmte Persönlichkeit. --- Celebrities in mass media. --- Célébrités dans les médias. --- Femmes dans la culture populaire. --- Femmes dans les médias. --- Frau. --- Massenmedien. --- Media Studies. --- Vieillissement dans les médias. --- Women in mass media. --- Women in popular culture. --- Media --- Seniors --- Popular culture --- Appearance --- Ageing

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"Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. Ayo A. Coly employs the concept of "hauntology" to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as female sexuality in the art of African women"-- "Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial representations of African women's sexuality "haunt" contemporary postcolonial African scholarship which, by maintaining a culture of avoidance about women's sexuality, generates a discursive conscription that ultimately holds the female body hostage. Ayo A. Coly employs the concept of "hauntology" and "ghostly matters" to formulate an explicative framework in which to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as a theoretical framework for discerning the elusive and cautious presences of female sexuality in the texts of African women. In illuminating the pervasive silence about the sexual female body in postcolonial African scholarship, Postcolonial Hauntologies challenges hostile responses to critical and artistic voices that suggest the African female body represents sacred ideological-discursive ground on which one treads carefully, if at all. Coly demonstrates how "ghosts" from the colonial past are countered by discursive engagements with explicit representations of women's sexuality and bodies that emphasize African women's power and autonomy."--

Body image in women --- Postcolonialism --- Women --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Imagery, Mental --- Images, Mental --- Mental imagery --- Mental images --- Imagination --- Visualization --- Psychology --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:316.346H29 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: andere topics --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Africa --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / African. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- Body --- Racism --- Images of women --- Black feminism --- Book --- Imaging

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Media pervade and saturate the world around us. From the proliferation of social media, to crowdsourcing, big data, games, and more traditional media such as television, radio, and print, media provide the framework for our engagement with the world and each other. By recasting the traditional concerns of media studies through the lens of the work of Deleuze and Guattari this book provides an innovative new toolkit for understanding how media shape our world. Taking as their central question what it is that media do, Harper and Savat offer a new and insightful approach to this exciting area of study.

Mass media. --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Christianity and other religions --- Conversion --- Germanic peoples --- Paganism --- 261.2 --- 266 <363> --- 27 "04/08" --- 293 --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- 261.2 De Kerk en het klassieke heidendom --- De Kerk en het klassieke heidendom --- Civilization, Pagan --- Heathenism --- Religions --- Germanic --- Christianity&delete& --- History --- Religion --- Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--Gebieden van de Germanen --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"04/08" --- Godsdiensten van de Germanen en de Wenden --- Europe --- Church history. --- Church history --- anno 1900-1999 --- Mass media --- Media studies --- Aesthetics --- Philosophy --- Deleuze, Gilles, --- Persian Gulf States --- History. --- Christianity --- Etats du golfe Persique --- Histoire --- Feminism --- International --- Second feminist wave --- Black feminism --- Book --- Activism --- Intersectionality --- Comparative literature

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Every user knows the importance of the "@" symbol in internet communication. Though the symbol barely existed in Latin America before the emergence of email, Spanish-speaking feminist activists immediately claimed it to replace the awkward "o/a" used to indicate both genders in written text, discovering embedded in the internet an answer to the challenge of symbolic inclusion. In repurposing the symbol, they changed its meaning. In Interpreting the Internet, Elisabeth Jay Friedman provides the first in-depth exploration of how Latin American feminist and queer activists have interpreted the internet to support their counterpublics. Aided by a global network of women and men dedicated to establishing an accessible internet, activists have developed identities, constructed communities, and honed strategies for social change. And by translating the internet into their own vernacular, they have transformed the technology itself. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in feminist and gender studies, Latin American studies, media studies, and political science, as well as anyone curious about the ways in which the internet shapes our lives.

Internet and women --- Internet --- Sexual minorities --- Internet and activism --- Feminism --- At sign --- Social aspects --- Social life and customs --- Latijns-Amerika --- Latin America --- Gender minorities --- GLBT people --- GLBTQ people --- Lesbigay people --- LBG people --- LGBT people --- LGBTQ people --- Non-heterosexual people --- Non-heterosexuals --- Sexual dissidents --- Minorities --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Women and the Internet --- Women --- @ sign --- @ symbol --- At symbol --- Commercial a (Sign) --- Commercial at --- Abbreviations --- Signs and symbols --- Activism and the Internet --- Social participation --- Social life and customs. --- LGBTQ+ Latinx. --- Lesbian Latinas. --- Internet and women - Latin America --- Internet - Social aspects - Latin America --- Sexual minorities - Latin America - Social life and customs --- Internet and activism - Latin America --- Feminism - Latin America --- At sign - Social aspects - Latin America --- Activism --- accessible internet. --- both genders. --- changed meaning. --- communication studies. --- computers. --- counterpublics. --- email. --- feminism. --- feminist activists. --- feminist theory. --- feminists. --- gender and women studies. --- gender politics. --- gender studies. --- global network of women. --- internet communication. --- internet practices. --- internet. --- latin america. --- latin american studies. --- lgbtq community. --- lgbtq. --- lgbtqia. --- media studies. --- political science. --- social change. --- spanish speaking feminists. --- symbolic inclusion. --- technology. --- vernacular. --- written text. --- Homosexuality --- Women's organizations --- Book