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This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture, produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in selected works of fiction, manga, film, and video games, offering a trans-genre, trans-media analysis of this enduring trope. The book focuses on several iterations of the monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japan: the self-replicating shojo in horror, monstrous mothers in science fiction, female ghosts and suburban hauntings in cinema, female monsters and public violence in survival horror games, and the rebellious female body in mytho-fiction. Situating the titles examined here amid discourses of crisis that have materialized in contemporary Japan, Dumas illuminates the ambivalent pleasure of the monstrous-feminine as a trope that both articulates anxieties centered on shifting configurations of subjectivity and nationhood, and elaborates novel possibilities for identity negotiation and social formation in a period marked by dramatic change.

Women in popular culture --- Femmes dans la culture populaire --- Monsters --- Monstres

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"El presente volumen estudia la relación entre el narcotráfico y la mujer en México en su vertiente de generadora de producciones culturales; propone una lectura que intenta precisamente encontrar sentido a la trascendencia del narco en la cultura nacional. En esta colección de ensayos se reflexiona meticulosamente y desde diferentes perspectivas y disciplinas sobre la creciente intervención de las mujeres en un fenómeno delicado e importante que debe estudiarse a profundidad y sin censura; por sus páginas recorremos muestras de arte, cine, literatura, música, periodismo y testimonio"--Page 4 of cover.

Women drug dealers --- Women outlaws --- Drug traffic --- Drugs in literature. --- Drugs in popular music. --- Narco-terrorism --- Women in popular culture --- Drug traffic. --- Narco-terrorism. --- Women drug dealers. --- Women in popular culture. --- Women outlaws. --- Drogues et arts. --- Mexico. --- Mexico

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In the 1940's film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga Postcards from the Edge, Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold psychological pain on her daughter, played by Meryl Streep. These dramas of conflict and the ambivalent struggle for separation have been central to popular images of mothers and daughters in the last half-century in the U.S. Walters boldly challenges these dichotomies and proposes an innovative and multilayered understanding of the cultural construction of the mother/daughter relationship. In a discussion of popular media ranging from themes of maternal martyrdom to maternal malevolence, Walters shows that since World War II, mainstream culture has generally represented the mother/daughter relationship as one of never-ending conflict and thus promoted an "ideology of separation" as necessary to the daughter's emancipation and maturity. This ideological move is placed in a social context of the anti-woman backlash of the early post-war period and the renewed anti-feminism of the Reagan and Bush years. Walters uses exceptions to mainstream imagery-films such as A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, television shows like "Maude," novels like The Joy Luck Club-to offer evidence of alternative traditions and paradigms. Timely and vividly argued, Lives Together/Worlds Apart makes a brilliant contribution to discussions of popular culture and feminism.

Mothers and daughters. --- Women in popular culture. --- Mothers and daughters --- Daughters and mothers --- Popular culture --- Women --- Daughters --- Girls --- Mother and child --- Public opinion

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The thoroughly revised Women in Culture 2/e explores the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, gender identity, and spirituality from the perspectives of diverse global locations. Its strong humanities content, including illustrations and creative writing, uniquely embraces the creative aspects of the field. * Each of the ten thematic chapters lead to creative readings, introducing a more * Readings throughout the text encourage intersectional thinking amongst students humanistic angle than is typical of textbooks in the field * This textbook is queer inclusive and allows students to engage with postcolonial/decolonial thinking, spirituality, and reproductive/environmental justice * A detailed timeline of feminist history, criticism and theory is provided, and the glossary encourages the development of critical vocabulary * A variety of illustrations supplement the written materials, and an accompanying website offers instructors pedagogical resources.

Women in popular culture. --- Sex role. --- Social values. --- Feminist criticism. --- Femmes dans la culture populaire. --- Rôle selon le sexe. --- Valeurs sociales. --- Critique féministe.

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Women in popular culture --- Punk rock music --- Feminism and music --- Queer theory --- History. --- Gender identity --- Music and feminism --- Music --- Alternative rock music --- Punk culture --- Popular culture --- Women --- Public opinion