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Feminism: A Reference Handbook
This book is intended to provide a gateway into the study of modern feminism, to give an overview of resources on the subject, and to present the modern feminist vision of women's issues and status.
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The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque
If the burlesque stripper, with her bawdy spirit and unruly insubordination, has emerged for many as a new ‘empowering’ model for the sexually aware woman, then she also strikes horror in the heard of second wave feminism. Embodied by high profile artists such as Dita von Teese and Catherine d’Lish,
Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. Feminism has been one of the most important and radical movements in ideas and in society over the last 40 years. Yet the roots of modern feminist and post-feminist thought stretch back much further than the 1960s.
This text seeks to move beyond the limitations of "critical pedagogy" in modern education, drawing on perspectives such as poststructuralism, postmodernism, cultural studies and feminism and seeks to offer positive alternatives.
Bringing a lively and accessible style to a complex subject, Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls explores the idea of the "posthuman" and the ways in which it is represented in popular culture. Toffoletti explores images of the posthuman body from goth-rocker Marilyn Manson's digitally manipulated self-portraits to the famous TDK "baby" adverts, and from the work of artist Patricia Piccinini to the curiously "plastic" form of the ubiquitous Barbie doll, controversially rescued here from her negative image. Drawing on the work of thinkers including Baudrillard, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls explores the nature of the human - and its ambiguous gender - in an age of biotechnologies and digital worlds.
