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Cultural Studies

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Freudian Slips

Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue

By Mary Gossy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

A feminist critic provides the first book-length literary exploration of Freud's classic study, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

Coeds Ruining the Nation

Women, Education, and Social Change in Postwar Japanese Media

By Julia Bullock
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A unique glimpse into the hopes and fears of the Japanese people as coeducation was first introduced in the Occupation period.
 

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being

The Feminist Spectator as Critic

2nd Edition

By Jill Dolan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies

This groundbreaking work in gender and performance, with a new introduction and updated bibliography

The New Woman International

Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s

Edited by Elizabeth Otto & Vanessa Rocco
Subjects: Art, Photography, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Media Studies, New Media, German Studies

An international picture of New Woman in film and photography

Viral Mothers

Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS

By Bernice L. Hausman
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Health & Medicine, Disability Studies

Sheds light on the complex cultural politics that surround the promotion of breastfeeding at a time of global health crises

Sex, Drag, and Male Roles

Investigating Gender as Performance

By Diane Torr
Edited by Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Critical Performances

The gender-bending performances of Diane Torr, creator of the Man for a Day workshops

Gates of Freedom

Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind

By Eugenia C. DeLamotte
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, American Studies

Rediscovers and celebrates the long-neglected writing of one of the world's most important feminist anarchists

Class, Critics, and Shakespeare

Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars

By Sharon Kay O'Dair
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies

A challenging critique of academic culture and its blindspots

Gender Matters

Rereading Michelle Z. Rosaldo

Edited by Alejandro Lugo & Bill (William) M. Maurer
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies

The first reexamination of a key theorist of anthropology

Constructions of the Classical Body

Edited by James I. Porter
Subjects: Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity

The Animal Within

Masculinity and the Gothic

By Cyndy Hendershot
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Explores notions of masculinity in Gothic film and fiction

Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900

Patriots, Nation, and Empire

By Moira Ferguson
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies

What Black Beauty and other books by women of this period reveal about their notions of nation, identity, and empire

Approaching the Millennium

Essays on Angels in America

Edited by Deborah R. Geis & Steven F. Kruger
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Leading critics, scholars, and theater practictioners consider the most talked-about play of the 1990s

The Body and Physical Difference

Discourses of Disability

Edited by David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality

Dehexing Sex

Russian Womanhood During and After Glasnost

By Helena Goscilo
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

A look at women's changing roles and images in the emerging new Russian society

The Artificial Paradise

Science Fiction and American Reality

By Sharona E. Ben-Tov
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Literature
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

Why do Americans find it appealing to create and live in artificial worlds--whether in space, at Disneyland, in computer networks, or in our own minds?

Feminisms in the Academy

Edited by Domna C. Stanton & Abigail J. Stewart
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies

Perspectives on the profound impact of feminist scholarship on the major academic disciplines

Forged under the Sun/Forjada bajo el sol

The Life of Maria Elena Lucas

Edited by Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Latinx Studies, Class Studies

The Female Body

Figures, Styles, Speculations

Edited by Laurence Goldstein
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Dignity

Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Buss has compiled the stories of 10 lower-income women, told in their own words

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