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Publisher
Artless Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental documentary that challenges normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Experimental filmmaker Russell Sheaffer's Masculinity/Femininity takes over where his short film starring James Franco, Masculinity & Me, left off...Shot mainly on Super 8mm film, this is not a typical documentary. Sheaffer asks filmmakers, academics, gender theorists, and artists to present their concepts of gender construction...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful ... talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age." Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended show business. To achieve...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In a sparkling, beautifully illustrated social history, Skirts traces the shifting roles of women over the twentieth century through the era's most iconic and influential dresses. While the story of women's liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants over the twentieth century, the most important and influential female fashions of the era featured skirts. Suffragists and soldiers marched in skirts; the heroines of the Civil...
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"...tells the story of remarkable women who, through their creativity, passion, intelligence, and sheer determination, have left an indelible mark on the history of humankind. The book is divided into four sections, with figures placed in Mother, Lover, Warrior, or Sage. Four Faces of Femininity explores the many ways in which women have changed the course of history--and demonstrates how crucial it is that women from every background be provided...
Publisher
Videofashion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this episode of Videofashion Collections, Diane Von Furstenberg brings timeless femininity to a summer collection inspired by 17th century artists. Celebrate 50 years of fashion fun with a show stopping retrospective from Betsey Johnson! Dive into a tropical Tahitian fantasy with Anna Sui! Plus, Rachel Zoe flashes back to the sixties with an effortlessly bohemian presentation!
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Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the updated second edition of Whipping Girl, Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist, shares her powerful experiences and observations -- both pre- and post-transition -- to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and...
8) Aurora Floyd
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Series
Publisher
Broadview Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as sensation fiction a tradition in which the key texts include Wilkie Collins s The Woman in White, Ellen Wood s East Lynne, and Dickens s Great Expectations. When Aurora Floyd was first published in serial form in 1862-63, Fraser s magazine asserted that a book without a murder, a divorce, a seduction, or a bigamy, is not apparently considered either worth writing or reading; and a mystery...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the same magazines where women are urged to be free and to have careers of their own, one can also spot advice about the best ways to be an obliging wife and a perfect mother. Literature, film, TV, and the news depict and glorify a specific, sometimes voluntary, sort of female submissiveness that can be a source of pleasure or satisfaction for even the most independent feminist. But this female submissiveness has scarcely warranted attention in...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Graphic artist Rhea Ewing celebrates the incredible diversity of experiences within the transgender community with this vibrant and revealing debut. For fans of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Meg-John Barker's Queer, Fine is an essential graphic memoir about the intricacies of gender identity and expression. As Rhea Ewing neared college graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question: What is gender? This obsession sparked a quest in their...
11) Italian film
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Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Italian Film examines the extraordinary cinematic tradition of Italy, from the silent era to the present. Analyzing film within the framework of Italy's historical, social, political, and cultural evolution during the twentieth century, Marcia Landy traces the construction of a coherent national cinema and its changes over time. Examining the cinematic uses of landscape, architecture, regional, rural, and metropolitan locales, and representations...
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Series
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the turn-of-the-century S-bend silhouette to celebrity couture of the new millennium and the evolution of streetwear, this comprehensive survey explores significant developments in fashion from 1900 to the present day. Fashion historians Amy de la Haye and Valerie Mendes focus on key movements and innovations in style, and explore trends through the work of some of the world's most original and influential designers and couturiers. Chapters...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
A narrative history about Anthony Comstock, US Postal Inspector and vice hunter, and the remarkable women who opposed him. Anthony Comstock, special agent to the U.S. Post Office, was one of the most important men in the lives of nineteenth-century women. The Comstock law, passed in 1873, penalized the mailing of contraception and obscenity with long sentences and steep fines. Between 1873 and Comstock's death in 1915, eight women were charged with...
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Publisher
National Gallery of Art
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Some 250 works explore three distinct periods in American history when mainstream and outlier artists intersected, ushering in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. The exhibition aligns work by such diverse artists as Charles Sheeler, Christina Ramberg, and Matt Mullican with both historic folk art and works by self-taught artists ranging from Horace Pippin to Janet Sobel and Joseph Yoakum. It also examines a recent influx...
16) How to be gay
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Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Robert A Caplen
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Shaken & stirred: the feminism of James Bond, the unofficial and independent first chapter in the Bond Girl's evolutionary journey, argues that the character initially served as a different archetype: one that reinforced a traditional, feminine ideal that served as a powerful reactionary symbol against the gender equality movement that gained prominence in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Shaken & stirred: the feminism of James Bond...
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Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An editor for The Washington Post's Style section offers a look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary, spotlighting how it has survived decades of social and cultural change and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas of feminism.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Jennifer Scott arrived at the doorstep of a grand Sixteenth Arrondissement apartment as a foreign exchange student, she was greeted by the woman who would become her mentor and the inspiration for the way she lived long after her time abroad was over. Madame Chic took the casual California teenager under her wing, revealing the secrets of how to French elevate the little things in life to the art of living. Lessons from Madame Chic is the essential...
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