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As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.

Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

Deirdre N. McCloskey: Home Page

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Susan Sontag criticizes, Norman Mailer, a notable writer and commentator on the women’s liberation movement, regarding his use of the term “lady writer.” She deems this label as patronizing, as it diminishes a writer's identity to their gender. This clip is from “Town Bloody Hall” (1979), a documentary film directed by Chris Hegedus and D.A.... See more

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The term “girl” came into popular usage in England in the 1880s to describe working-class unmarried women who occupied an emerging social space between childhood and adulthood. Not quite a child, she was childlike in that she had yet to become a wife or mother, the type of modern urbanite who engaged in “frivolous” pursuits like consumption,

Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

She is the end that every woman worries about. Her body is no longer desirable, her labor no longer necessary. What is monstrous about her is simply the fact that she exists past her usefulness. Because aging, bitterness, and decline are inseparable from womanhood itself, every woman has the capacity to become monstrous, and every woman is a... See more

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Diana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019

Sterrenburg, "Politics and Psyche in Frankenstein"

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Diana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019

“Male trouble”: Sewing, amateurism, and gender

by Joseph McBrinn

DOI: 10.5040/9781474248983.ch-001

Page Range: 27–44

The American director John Waters’s 1974 Female Trouble was one of the first in a series of films to establish the campy, outlandish, and monstrous domestic characters and situations that attracted both recognition and notoriety. In Fema