Browsing Communications by Subject "Women's studies"
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Generating Latinas: Online Images and the Mechanisms of the Google Search Engine
(2014-02-24)Latinos have recently become the largest minority group in the United States, and their growing presence is perceived as both a threat and an opportunity. The Latina body acts as a site where discourses about Latinos as a ... -
In the Darkroom: International Development Photography and the Naturalistic Enthymeme
This paper compares the darkroom as a transformative space where film photographers developnegative images to international development organizations that aim to bring light to the nearly 1.2 billion people who live without ... -
Unbelievable Bodies: Audience Readings of Action Heroines as a Post-Feminist Visual Metaphor
(2013-07-25)In this paper, I employ a feminist approach to audience research and examine the individual interviews of 11 undergraduate women who regularly watch and enjoy action heroine films. Participants in the study articulate ... -
Using Female Empowerment as a Cover Story for Whiteness and Racial Hierarchy in Pop Culture: Interrogating the Intersections of Racial Appropriation and Feminist Discourse in the Performances of Fergie, Gwen Stefani, and Lady Gaga
(2012-09-13)This project contends that the pop cultural production of the subject of third wave feminism -- an empowered sexy yet tough, glamorous yet powerful woman -- is deeply entangled in racial symbolism that ultimately re-assert ...