"Sluts" on the Small Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Sluts" on the Small Screen write by Libbie Searcy. This book was released on 2024-02-06. "Sluts" on the Small Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Viewers spend years laughing, crying, celebrating, and mourning with their favorite TV characters, but when those characters are promiscuous women, different viewers may have very different reactions. Both sexual freedom and sexual shame run deep in the cultural waters, so as TV's promiscuous female characters navigate those choppy waters, what unfolds onscreen reflects--and ultimately shapes--perceptions of promiscuous women as liberated and adventurous, damaged and destructive, or even sick and gross. This work examines fifteen promiscuous female characters and identifies trends in those portrayals--from what motivates their promiscuity to the reproaches they face, the revelations they have, and the redemption it seems they must undergo as a result of their "slutty" ways. This book aims not to promote promiscuity but to fight against the stigmatization of promiscuous women, which is a fight against puritanical patriarchy that benefits everyone.
The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Golden Girls write by Bernadette Giacomazzo. This book was released on 2023-08-15. The Golden Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This cultural history is a fun yet meaningful examination of the beloved 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, including how it tackled progressive social issues of its time and forever changed the way audiences view older women.
A Dark Nativity
A Dark Nativity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Dark Nativity write by George Pitcher. This book was released on 2017-11-30. A Dark Nativity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Rev’d Natalie Cross, a high-profile priest at St Paul’s Cathedral, is tipped to be one of the first female bishops in the Church of England. She could be happy. But she’s not. Natalie’s work among the desperately poor is intricately bound up with her wounded past. Her fierce humanity has already got her into trouble as a foreign aid worker among the refugees of Sudan and the Middle East. And when she is drawn into the world of peace-process politics, it seems it’s not her faith she needs so much as a brutal self-reliance born of damage done long ago. In a godforsaken world of oppression and terror, where cynical intelligence agencies operate outside the rule of international law, she is forced to respond in kind to those who would so cruelly use and abuse her. The most dangerous people are not always those holding the guns – and Natalie will need to abandon morality and tap into her own dark side to take them on.
Living in the Eighties
Living in the Eighties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living in the Eighties write by Gil Troy. This book was released on 2009-10-22. Living in the Eighties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Some see the 1980s as a Golden Age, a "Morning in America" when Ronald Reagan revived America's economy, reoriented American politics, and restored Americans' faith in their country and in themselves. Others see the 1980s as a new "Gilded Age," an era that was selfish, superficial, glitzy, greedy, divisive, and destructive. This multifaceted exploration of the 1980s brings together a variety of voices from different political persuasions, generations, and vantage points. The volume features work by Reagan critics and Reagan fans (including one of President Reagan's closest aides, Ed Meese), by historians who think the 1980s were a disastrous time, those who think it was a glorious time, and those who see both the blessings and the curses of the decade. Their essays examine everything from multiculturalism, Southern conservatism, and Reaganomics, to music culture, religion, crime, AIDS, and the city. A complex, thoughtful account of a watershed in our recent history, this volume will engage anyone interested in this pivotal decade.
African American Women and Sexuality in the Cinema
African American Women and Sexuality in the Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African American Women and Sexuality in the Cinema write by Norma Manatu. This book was released on 2014-01-10. African American Women and Sexuality in the Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The representation of African American women is an important issue in the overall study of how women are portrayed in film, and has received serious attention in recent years. Traditionally, "women of color," particularly African American women, have been at the margins of studies of women's on-screen depictions--or excluded altogether. This work focuses exclusively on the sexual objectification of African American women in film from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Critics of the negative sexual imagery have long speculated that control by African American filmmakers would change how African American women are depicted. This work examines sixteen films made by males both white and black to see how the imagery might change with the race of the filmmaker. Four dimensions are given special attention: the diversity of the women's roles and relationships with men, the sexual attitudes of the African American female characters, their attitudes towards men, and their nonverbal and verbal sexual behaviors. This work also examines the role culture has played in perpetuating the images, how film influences viewers' perception of African American women and their sexuality, and how the imagery polarizes women by functioning as a regulator of their sexual behaviors based on cultural definitions of the feminine.
