Recently added articles from Genders:
Are you finally comfortable in your own skin? The raced and classed imperatives for somatic/spiritual salvation in The Swan.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [1] When Sylvia is selected to be a contestant on Fox's makeover and pageant reality show The Swan, we are told that she has faced a lifetime of romantic rejection because of her appearance. In documentary-style footage, Sylvia critiques her bikini-clad body in front of a mirror, speaking ...
Lily: sold out! The queer feminism of Lily Tomlin.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [1] Lily Tomlin was perhaps at the peak of her mainstream fame and popularity in the 1970s and 80s. Her body of work at that time includes live performance, television, sound recording, and film. Prominent in all of these, her public persona was shaped mostly in the latter three arenas, ...
Misfortune and men's eyes: voyeurism, sorrow, and the homosocial in three early Brian De Palma films.(Greetings, Hi, Mom!, and Get to Know Your Rabbit)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [1] In her groundbreaking essay "When the Woman Looks," Linda Williams argues that "Brian De Palma's film Dressed to Kill extends Psycho's premise by holding the woman [Kate Miller, played by Angie Dickinson] responsible for the horror that destroys her" (94). De Palma extends much more ...
On mothers without citizenship: an interview with Lynn Fujiwara.(Mothers Without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform)(Interview)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [1] THOMA: In your book, Mothers Without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform, you analyze how a new nativism and foreigner racialization intensified in an anti-immigrant movement in the mid 1990s, a period of heightened white anxiety about an ...
The cinematic shrews of teen comedy: gendering Shakespeare in twentieth-century film.(The Taming of the Shrew)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [1] The discourse of feminism since at least the last two decades of the twentieth century has had to combat repeatedly questions of "conformity" and "happiness": if feminism must work against patriarchy, must women reject, in full, every aspect of traditional femininity and domesticity, ...