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This book examines representations of reproductive decisions in cultural texts. Close analyses of Teatro Luna, Jane the Virgin, Vida, Quinceaera and Favianna Rodriguezs artwork serve as case studies offering a refreshing way to visualize, interpret, and hear Latina/x reproductive decisions.

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In this study, Kenneth MacKinnon suggests that ultimately masculinity is no straightforward actuality. Instead, several aspects of masculinity are ideals rather than social realities. These ideals might be best understood as forming a near-impossible version of masculinity to which males in society are encouraged to aspire if they want to be real men'.

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This is a study of change and continuity in the iconographics of art and the representations of artists during the sixteenth century in Western European traditions, especially Italy and the Netherlands. -- .

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This text reassesses how women are talked about and constructed visually across a range of popular media. Arguing for the importance of a historical approach, this book examines continuities and changes in dominant myths of femininity, especially in the transition from the modern to the postmodern period.

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It chronicles the course of the women's movement and women's organizations still active in the political arena and puts forth an alternative plan to involve women in the reconstruction process in both urban and rural areas.

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Presents evidence about women's and men's new circumstances in eight of the former communist countries, exploring the intersection of politics and the life cycle, the differential effects of economic restructuring, and women's public and political participation.

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Reproductive Justice and Women's Voices: Health Communication across the Lifespan contributes to patient-centered public health by analyzing womens reproductive health across the lifespan. Sundstrom explicates womens understandings of control and embodiment in the context of technology.

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Reproductive Justice and Women's Voices: Health Communication across the Lifespan contributes to patient-centered public health by analyzing womens reproductive health across the lifespan. Sundstrom explicates womens understandings of control and embodiment in the context of technology.

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Using Chela Sandovals theories of methodologies of the oppressed, this book examines the art created by several Caribbean women who use literature, film, graphic novels, music, testimonios, photographs, and other forms of art to convey social justice, democracy, and new ways of re/imaging marginal identities.

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What is a "de facto" feminist What might the phenomenon of de facto feminism have to say about social and political change in the U.S. The work employs an interdisciplinary approach to this question and draws arguments from philosophy, history, and American politics to underscore the non-ideological character of feminism.

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Examines gender relations in East Germany from 1945 to the 1970s, focusing especially on the relationship between ordinary women, the Communist Party, and the state created by the Communists, the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

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Like the products of the 'sea-change' described in Ariel's song in "The Tempest", modernist writing is 'rich and strange'. This book argues to the contrary maintaining that modernist form evolved precisely as a means of representing the terrifying appeal of movements such as socialism and feminism.

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This study explores Western assumptions about the relationship between romantic love and sex.

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This work argues that, far from bringing peace in the war between the sexes, Margaret Mead's "gender/sex" constructions escalated the conflict. It shows that this construction does accord with biological reality and that an improved understanding of sex/gender would hasten sex equality.

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Through an examination of the experience of transsexuals, this book enhances understanding of how gender can and does function in complex and subtle ways. This book investigates the pressures and motivations to conform to expected gender roles, and the ways in which these are affected by social, educational, and professional status.

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This book presents the detailed life stories of nine women academics in business faculties throughout North America. Three are in their early careers, three are facing tenure, and three are recognized leaders in their field. teacher versus researcher, wife/mother versus professional, researcher versus administrator.

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This book presents the detailed life stories of nine women academics in business faculties throughout North America. Three are in their early careers, three are facing tenure, and three are recognized leaders in their field. teacher versus researcher, wife/mother versus professional, researcher versus administrator.

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Scandinavian Women Writers presents short stories written by the leading women writers of the last century.

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The relationship between U.S. masculinity and American feminist movements of the twentieth century is complex. The essays collected in Screening Images of American Masculinity in the Age of Postfeminism engage prominent film and television texts that directly interrogate image...