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Adolescent Identities In A Globalized Media Culture, Meenakshi Durham
Adolescent Identities In A Globalized Media Culture, Meenakshi Durham
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
No abstract provided.
Adolescents, The Internet And The Politics Of Gender: A Feminist Case Analysis, Meenakshi Durham
Adolescents, The Internet And The Politics Of Gender: A Feminist Case Analysis, Meenakshi Durham
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
This case study is based on field observation of the first hands-on Internet sessions experienced by a group of lower-income minority teenagers in an inner-city middle school. Using feminist analysis to interrogate the social dynamic within which the Interact use took place, I explore how new technologies are appropriated by adolescents as a site of social bonding. I conclude that the adolescent users' social locations in terms of gender, race, and class work to constrain Internet use to support dominant relations of power
Displaced Persons: Symbols Of South Asian Femininity And The Returned Gaze In U.S. Media Culture, Meenakshi Durham
Displaced Persons: Symbols Of South Asian Femininity And The Returned Gaze In U.S. Media Culture, Meenakshi Durham
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Presents a critical analysis of media images of White women adorned in the symbols of Indian femininity to explore the circulating economy of seeing and representation in the United States. Preservation of the contemporary 'ethnic chic' of power hierarchies by locating the White woman as sexual object and the Indian woman as the disembodied fetish; Implications for South Asian American women.
Media And Cultural Studies : Keyworks, Meenakshi Durham, Douglas Kellner
Media And Cultural Studies : Keyworks, Meenakshi Durham, Douglas Kellner
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
No abstract provided.