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Author | : Sherrie A. Inness |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2018-01-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1512807176 |
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Tough girls are everywhere these days. Whether it is Ripley battling a swarm of monsters in the Aliens trilogy or Captain Janeway piloting the starship Voyager through space in the continuing Star Trek saga, women strong in both body and mind have become increasingly popular in the films, television series, advertisements, and comic books of recent decades. In Tough Girls, Sherrie A. Inness explores the changing representations of women in all forms of popular media and what those representations suggest about shifting social mores. She begins her examination of tough women in American popular culture with three popular television shows of the 1960s and '70s—The Avengers, Charlie's Angels, and The Bionic Woman—and continues through such contemporary pieces as a recent ad for Calvin Klein jeans and current television series such as The X-files and Xena: Warrior Princess. Although all these portrayals show women who can take care of themselves in ways that have historically been seen as uniquely male, they also variously undercut women's toughness. She argues that even some of the strongest depictions of women have perpetuated women's subordinate status, using toughness in complicated ways to break or bend gender stereotypes while simultaneously affirming them. Also of interest— Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture Lori Landay
Author | : Laurie Schaffner |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2006-09-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813539463 |
Download Girls in Trouble with the Law Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Girls in Trouble with the Law, sociologist Laurie Schaffner takes us inside juvenile detention centers and explores the worlds of the young women incarcerated within. Across the nation, girls of color are disproportionately represented in detention facilities, and many report having experienced physical harm and sexual assaults. For girls, the meaning of these and other factors such as the violence they experience remain undertheorized and below the radar of mainstream sociolegal scholarship. When gender is considered as an analytic category, Schaffner shows how gender is often seen through an outmoded lens. Offering a critical assessment of what she describes as a gender-insensitive juvenile legal system, Schaffner makes a compelling argument that current policies do not go far enough to empower disadvantaged girls so that communities can assist them in overcoming the social limitations and gender, sexual, and racial/ethnic discrimination that continue to plague young women growing up in contemporary United States.
Author | : Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2009-01-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780791472989 |
Download Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Case study of the life of a feminist organization in a changing political and funding climate.
Author | : Kim Tolley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1135339279 |
Download The Science Education of American Girls Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Science Education of American Girls provides a comparative analysis of the science education of adolescent boys and girls, and analyzes the evolution of girls' scientific interests from the antebellum era through the twentieth century. Kim Tolley expands the understanding of the structural and cultural obstacles that emerged to transform what, in the early nineteenth century, was regarded as a "girl's subject." As the form and content of pre-college science education developed, Tolley argues, direct competition between the sexes increased. Subsequently, the cultural construction of science as a male subject limited access and opportunity for girls.
Author | : Norman Edgar Wengert |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1490707999 |
Download Women's Intuition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Women?s Intuition by Norman Edgar Wengert, Doctor of Chiropractic whose 50-year clinical practice inspired development of Enchanted Sight, a method he teaches to control interaction at the interface of left brain logic and right brain intuitive input ?? our access point to our non-mental, non-physical nature ?? proving the sixth or psychic sense is primary, discovering women experience twice the number of feelings(hundreds) men do, giving them access to twice the knowledge. He and his researchers reveal it is possible to download and transpose the actual meanings contained in myriad enigmas produced by the sixth sense.
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Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 310 |
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ISBN | : 1412227135 |
Download How to Win Your Next Soccer Game and Coaching Very Young Soccer Players Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Eleanor E. Maccoby |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780804709743 |
Download The Psychology of Sex Differences Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Stanford University Press classic.
Author | : Kimberly Alyn |
Publisher | : Harvest House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 225 |
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ISBN | : 0736937137 |
Download Men Are Slobs, Women Are Neat Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Debra Pepler |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2013-10-30 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1554588731 |
Download Understanding and Addressing Girls’ Aggressive Behaviour Problems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Understanding and Addressing Girls’ Aggressive Behaviour Problems reflects a major shift in understanding children’s aggressive-behaviour problems. Researchers used to study what went wrong with a troubled child and needed to be fixed; we now aim to understand what is going wrong in children’s relationships that might create, exacerbate, and maintain aggressive-behaviour problems in childhood and adolescence. In this volume, leading researchers in the aggression field examine how problems develop for boys and girls in relationships and how we can help children to develop healthy relationships. Individual chapters explore biological and social contexts, including physical health and relationship problems that might underlie the development of aggressive behaviour problems. The impact of relationships on girls’ development is illustrated to be particularly important for Aboriginal girls. Contributors discuss prevention and intervention strategies that help aggressive children build the requisite skills and relationship capacities and also shift dynamics within critical social contexts, such as the family, peer group, classroom, and school. The support of healthy development not only of children but of their parents and other important adults in their lives, including teachers has been shown to be effective in reducing the burden of suffering associated with aggression among children and adolescents—for youth themselves as well as their families, peers, schools, communities, and society.
Author | : Paula Ruth Gilbert |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2006-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0773577106 |
Download Violence and the Female Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing. Paula Ruth Gilbert argues that these Quebec feminist writers are "re-framing" gender. Violence and the Female Imagination explores whether these imagined women are striking out at an external other or harming themselves through acts of self-destruction and depression. Gilbert examines the degree to which women are imitating men in the outward direction of their anger and hostility and suggests that such "tough" women may be mocking men in their "macho" exploits of sexuality and violence. She illustrates the ways in which Quebec female authors are "feminizing" violence or re-envisioning gender in North American culture. Gilbert bridges methodological gaps and integrates history, sociology, literary theory, feminist theory, and other disciplinary approaches to provide a framework for the discussion of important ethical and aesthetic questions.