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Hardy Girls News Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 2003), Hardy Girls Healthy Women Staff
Hardy Girls News Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 2003), Hardy Girls Healthy Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
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Desire Across Boundaries: Marriage And Sexuality In A Transnational And Global Context, Mustafa Abdalla
Desire Across Boundaries: Marriage And Sexuality In A Transnational And Global Context, Mustafa Abdalla
Archived Theses and Dissertations
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Hardy Girls News Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 2003), Hardy Girls Healthy Women Staff
Hardy Girls News Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 2003), Hardy Girls Healthy Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Hardy Girls News Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter 2003), Hardy Girls Healthy Women Staff
Hardy Girls News Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter 2003), Hardy Girls Healthy Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Race, Sex, And Redemption In Monster's Ball, Celeste Fisher, Carole Wiebe
Race, Sex, And Redemption In Monster's Ball, Celeste Fisher, Carole Wiebe
Ethnic Studies Review
In this paper, we explore the way that interracial relationships between blacks and whites come to be represented as problematic for mainstream audiences. By looking specifically at the film Monster's Ball (2001), we examine how race is used to identify and characterize our culture's standard protagonist, the white male, and at how white male sexuality is constructed through the black female. Particularly striking in this film is how the social and institutional structures that create and reiterate problems of race are used to characterize the movie's central protagonists, yet then evaded and submerged in the discourse of romance.
[Review Of] Jun Xing And Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Eds. Reversing The Lens: Ethnicity, Race, Gender, And Sexuality Through Film, Susan Crutchfield
[Review Of] Jun Xing And Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Eds. Reversing The Lens: Ethnicity, Race, Gender, And Sexuality Through Film, Susan Crutchfield
Ethnic Studies Review
The fourteen essays collected in Xing and Hirabayashi's new volume make a strong argument for serious intellectual work involved not only in the college-level study of moving images for their messages about minority groups but also in pedagogical approaches that take film and video as their primary texts. Written by a collection of scholars who work in ethnic and racial studies and various allied fields, the essays share a concern with pedagogy and with showing "how visual media can be used to facilitate cross-cultural understanding and communications, particularly with respect to the thorny topics of ethnicity and race" (3). Indeed, …