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Different Lenses: Women's Feminist and Postfeminist Perspectives in Public Relations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Gender inequalities in public relations (PR) persist. Industry research within the UK reveals a gender pay-gap, which shows significant disparities in pay between men and women (CIPR, 2015; PRCA, 2016). Feminist research, mostly undertaken in the US over
Gondim Mariutti, F, Yeomans, L
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Penelope within the postfeminist frame, contemporary retelling to the mythic figure through The Penelopiad, Margeret Atwood and The Memoirs of Helen, Amanda Elyot.

open access: yesAmaltea: Revista de Mitocrítica
Margaret Atwood’s Penelope (The Penelopiad) offers a reinterpretation which questions traditional epic values through a cynic narrative, full of autonomy, sarcasm and individualism.
Aitana Argibay Ares
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Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, by Mari Ruti

open access: yesAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2018
Over the last decade, scholarly interest in the contemporary romantic comedy (or “rom-com”) has grown significantly. A central focal point in the recent literature has been to interrogate the genre’s much-maligned reputation (Deleyto), and to highlight ...
Alice Guilluy
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At an Intersection of Postfeminism and Neoliberalism: A Discourse Analytical View of an International Women’s Magazine

open access: yesCritical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2013
Female empowerment, success and agency have become icons of contemporary postfeminist popular culture and especially of women’s magazines. While in previous research these notions have been seen as manifestations of a new, popular feminism, more recently
Kati Kaupinnen
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You Go, Girl! Nancy Drew in the Girl Power Era

open access: yesJournal of Popular Romance Studies
Since she sped onto the scene in her blue roadster in the 1930s, Nancy Drew has remained a staple of popular fiction about and aimed at girls and young women.
Andrea Braithwaite
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Feminisms and activisms: reflections on the politics of writing and the editorial process [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This article addresses the questions and dilemmas that each of us has brought to the project. It traces their modulation, refinement and manifestation as they became part of a shared creative dynamic and thus subject to our personal experience and ...
Biglia, Barbara   +3 more
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Postfeminist Masculinity: The New Disney Norm?

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2018
A recent trend in Disney scholarship attends to postfeminist readings of Disney film and media. This paper contributes to that conversation by focusing on the representations of masculinity that accompany postfeminist sensibilities in and through Disney ...
Michael Macaluso
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New trends in the representation of women in contemporary media culture: a critical analysis of three women empowering advertising campaigns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Unlike previous scholarly research which has examined women representation in the media by highlighting the point that women have long been depicted as passive and dependent on men thereby reproducing traditional gender roles, this research aimed to ...
Alkan, Nermin
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Women in the cut of danger : female subjectivity, unregimented masculinity and the pleasure/danger symbiosis from the gothic romance to the erotic thriller [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Through a comparison between Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca and Susanna Moore's 1995 novel In the Cut, this article considers the extent to which Franco Moretti's theory of the inevitable dissolution of literary genres is true, with specific ...
Yiannitsaros, Christopher
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La importancia del lenguaje en el proceso de reificación de las mujeres / The Importance of Language in the Process of Reification of Women

open access: yesAsparkía, 2018
RESUMEN: Nuestro artículo pretende poner de manifiesto la estrategia de resignificación lingüística puesta en marcha por los patriarcados neoliberales para disimular, dulcificar e invisibilizar todos aquellos significantes que puedan poner en evidencia ...
María Ávila Bravo-Villasante
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