In the second of two posts on the enterprise of black female discipline, how does the enterprise change when a black woman is the disciplinarian?
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Posts Tagged ‘ women ’
Exploring Iyanla Vanzant’s Toolkit for Fix My Life
The Face (and Laugh) that Launched a Thousand Bits
A farewell to Phyllis Diller from a reverent scholar-fan.
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Grimm and the Monstrous Feminine
Dead women are standard set dressing on most crime dramas, but the more I watched the more I realized the women in Grimm aren’t usually homicide victims – they’re monsters.
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Feminist Game Studies
It isn’t difficult to find feminist game studies, or feminist gamers. The reputation of misogyny in video game culture, lack of women and racial minorities in the industry, the perpetuation of player stereotypes in games marketing and the popular press, and the dearth of non-white, female, or queer characters in games has provided plenty...
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An Incomplete History: “Women Who Rock” at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
I found myself in Cleveland last week. My friend Amy Rigby, a musician who plies her trade in one of the parallel music industries that I talked about in my recent post about the Grammy Awards, had things to do in Cleveland. I’d been threatening for months to take advantage of being on sabbatical...
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Peggy’s Social Consciousness: Corporate Culture and Counterculture
An intersection of civil rights and women’s rights is woven through this episode about women’s voices.
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