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Cold War Playboys: Models Of Masculinity In The Literature Of Playboy, Taylor Joy Mitchell Nov 2013

Cold War Playboys: Models Of Masculinity In The Literature Of Playboy, Taylor Joy Mitchell

Taylor Joy Mitchell

"Cold War Playboys: Models of Masculinity in the Literature of Playboy" emphasizes the literary voices that emerged in response to the Cold War's redefinitions of space and sexuality and, thus, adds to the growing national discourse of Cold War literary and masculinity studies. I argue that the literature Playboy includes has always been a necessary feature to creating its masculinity model; however, that very literature often destabilizes the magazine's grand narrative because it presents readers with alternative models of masculinity. To make that argument, I presume five things: 1) masculinity, like femininity, is a construct; 2) the mid-century masculinity crisis …


A Circulação Das Teorias Feministas E Os Desafios Da Tradução, Cláudia De Lima Costa, Sonia E. Alvarez Jan 2013

A Circulação Das Teorias Feministas E Os Desafios Da Tradução, Cláudia De Lima Costa, Sonia E. Alvarez

Claudia de Lima Costa

Neste ensaio exploramos as especificidades das viagens e traduções das teorias feministas a partir das mediações exercidas pelas revistas e periódicos científicos. Discutimos como um cânone feminista é construído por um mercado de citação transnacional e concluímoscom alguns exemplos de como abrir espaços nas publicações para outros saberes feministasa partir de práticas contratradutórias


Wonder Woman Wears Pants: Wonder Woman, Feminism And The 1972 'Women's Lib' Issue., Ann Matsuuchi Jan 2012

Wonder Woman Wears Pants: Wonder Woman, Feminism And The 1972 'Women's Lib' Issue., Ann Matsuuchi

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This article originally appeared in a special issue of Colloquy, Tights and Tiaras: Female Superheroes and Media Cultures. -- The history of the Wonder Woman comic book character is full of events and personalities as dramatic as the tales detailed in the text. The origins and development of this iconic female superhero demonstrate how competing ideas of what womanhood meant were reflected in popular culture. In this essay, the focus is on a particular issue of the Wonder Woman comic book, with a story by writer and literary critic Samuel R. Delany in 1972. In this issue Wonder Woman takes …