Housework and Gender in American Television: Coming Clean examines representations of housework and their relationships with gender in sixty of the most popular television shows of the 1950s through the 1980s, searching for trends, similarities, inconsistencies, and meaning. Much of the critical scholarship addressing mid-century televised ......
This book describes, from a psychoanalytical point of view, the desires and anxieties of contemporary Chinese nationalism as it evolved after the 1989 student protests and crackdown. The author also unwraps China's convoluted relationship with its Occidental Other, describing how the Western gaze plays an essential part in forming China's ......
Much of the literature on globalization has centered on the large, macro-level forces that influence the ways ideas, people, and various forms of capital move around the world. From this vantage point, discussions about the progressive feminization of migration, in particular the feminization of out-migration from rural areas, indicate an ......
Reproductive Justice and Women's Voices: Health Communication across the Lifespan contributes to patient-centered public health by analyzing women's reproductive health across the lifespan. Sundstrom explicates women's understandings of control and embodiment in the context of technology.
This edited collection deals with intersecting axes of power and privilege in order to advance conversation on motherhood across disciplines. Mother-scholar contributors explore theoretical and disciplinary approaches to academic motherhood, examine its critical and cultural territory, and articulate the challenges of their dual identity.
Using narrative analysis, this book draws on interviews with women who left relationships with other women to begin relationships with men in order to understand how these women make sense of their sexual identities.
This book examines identity change between two generations of Taiwanese women, one having come of age before Taiwan became an economic powerhouse, the other after. Biographies and lifestyle inventories were obtained from five mother-daughter pairs, and they show how women's lives have undergone revolutionary changes from the older to the younger ......
Gendered Organizations in Community-Based Responses to Domestic Violen
Feminist Advocacy: Gendered Organizations in Community-based Responses to Domestic Violence examines victim advocacy through a gendered organizations perspective. This monograph draws from in-depth interviews with twenty-six domestic violence victim advocates to examine their experiences with gendered policies and practices in the justice system, ......
Devises a theoretical framework to think through the politics of transmission within feminism. It draws upon and develops the work of Bernard Stiegler to create a theoretical apparatus that can analyze the politics of transmission within digital culture.
