Tied Up In Knots: Irony, Ambiguity, and the 'Difficult' Pleasures of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY [PDF]
, 2016 Upon its release in February 2015, Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Fifty Shades of Grey met with vehement critical derision, finding itself reproached on both artistic and ideological grounds.
McCulloch, Richard
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Respectfully Excluded: Symbolic Violence, Space and Benevolent Sexism in Academia in Pakistan
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Feminist scholars have long recognized the gender‐based challenges that women in academia face. We undertake a qualitative study of how women in academic institutions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), a province in Pakistan, experience exclusion. We draw on narratives elicited through hypothetical vignettes from 10 women academics in KPK, collected
Fatima Junaid +2 more
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A hundred and two just-so stories: exploring the lay evolutionary hypotheses of the manosphere
Evolutionary Human SciencesThe manosphere is a collection of online antifeminist men’s groups whose ideologies often invoke Darwinian principles and evolutionary psychological research.
Louis Bachaud +2 more
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Mulieris Dignitatem and God's Wariness [PDF]
Družboslovne Razprave, 2013 The author addresses the key characteristics of the religious shaping of women's identity and their social role in the Catholic Church (CC), with the following aims: to disclose the misogyny contained in relevant CC explanations, to evaluate its reaction
Maca Jogan
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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The ambivalent play of contrasts in the defence of women in a work attributed to Ortensio Lando
Études romanes de BrnoThe present paper will highlight the arguments Ortensio Lando used to praise or mock women, explaning what resources he employed to discredit or exalt certain female figures of his time.
Miriam Bucuré
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De la paternité biologique à la paternité littéraire : étapes d’une argumentation chez Montaigne
Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2010 In his essay “On the paternal affection for children” Montaigne (himself a father and a magistrate greatly experienced in succession cases) proposes a critical revision of the topos of the relations between parents and children.
Nadine Kuperty-Tsur
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What About Susan? Gender in Narnia [PDF]
, 2017 Critics of C.S. Lewis argue that his misogyny is present in his portrayal of female characters. While Lewis himself was self-contradictory in his attitudes towards women, his depictions of female characters in The Chronicles of Narnia are both realistic ...
Schilling, Emma G.
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Theatres of Indirectness: Passive Aggression and Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Sara Crangle, Sam Ladkin
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Is Black Motherhood A Marker of Oppression or Empowerment? Hip-Hop and R&B Lessons about Mama [PDF]
, 2015 A qualitative content analysis was conducted on the lyrics of 59 songs (40 Hip Hop songs; 17 R&B songs; 2 songs that represented the Hip Hop and R&B genre) from 1961-2013 to identify the ways that Black male and Black female artists described motherhood.
Brown, Arielle, Chaney, Cassandra
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