Contemporary medical television and crisis in the NHS [PDF]
, 2016 This article maps the terrain of contemporary UK medical television, paying particular attention to Call the Midwife as its centrepiece, and situating it in contextual relation to the current crisis in the NHS. It provides a historical overview of UK and
Anderson M +26 more
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'The body does matter': Women as embodied social subjects in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2017 Postmodernism posed a crucial ontological challenge to reality, questioning what constitutes the real world, simultaneously interrogating the horizon of representation of this unstable reality in fiction.
Milosavljević Tatjana B.
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‘Just be confident girls!’: Confidence Chic as Neoliberal Governmentality [PDF]
, 2017 In our injurious patriarchal cultures, unconfidence is almost inescapable when inhabiting womanhood. However, recently the promotion of self-confidence has surfaced as the site for expanded, heightened and more insidious modes of regulation, often ...
Favaro, L.
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Sémiotique de l’enterrement prématuré : le féminisme à l’ère du postféminisme
Glad!, 2018 This essay investigates the strange coincidence of the unprecedented growth of global feminism over the past four decades with recurrent proclamations of feminism’s death.
Mary Hawkesworth
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Women’s circles and the rise of the new feminine : reclaiming sisterhood, spirituality, and wellbeing [PDF]
, 2018 This paper draws on the results of ethnographic research on ‘women’s circles’; women-only spaces that celebrate sisterhood and the ‘feminine’, including the increasingly globally popular ‘Red Tent’.
Longman, Chia
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Postfeminist Fiction in Chick Lit Novels
Gender Studies, 2015 The intersection of postfeminist arguments with popular culture and popular cultural forms is of great significance for investigating representational politics and issues of identity.
Ilief-Martinescu Alina
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Fiercely Real?:Tyra Banks and the making of new media celebrity [PDF]
, 2014 This paper will examine former supermodel Tyra Banks as a contemporary “celebrity entrepreneur,” focusing on Banks’ recent shift from television persona to multimedia icon within a neoliberal popular culture.
Keller, Jessalynn
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The Personal is Political: Assessing Feminist Fundamentals in the Digital Age
Social Sciences, 2018 The ‘personal is political’ has long been recognised as the definitive slogan of second-wave feminism but can it still inform our understanding of the contemporary practice of feminism?
Frances Rogan, Shelley Budgeon
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The Smirnoff Equaliser – en feministisk medieintervention för strömmad musik?
Norsk Medietidsskrift, 2020 Sammendrag I den här artikeln analyseras marknadsföringen av The Smirnoff Equaliser utifrån syftet att undersöka vilken sorts feministisk medieintervention (Gill, 2016) verktyget presenteras som och hur verktyget placeras in i ...
Ann Werner
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A remembrance of things (best) forgotten: The 'allegorical past' and the feminist imagination [PDF]
, 2012 This is the author's PDF version of an article published in Feminist theology© 2012. The definitive version is available at http://fth.sagepub.com/This article discusses the US TV series Mad Men, which is set in an advertising agency in 1960s New York ...
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