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  “With all due respect, I’m far from a slut”, the hidden social justice advocate in Maury Povich

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  Anonymous In Media Res Special Category

  April 10, 2015

  begins by Maury talking to the women in abusive relationships who admit they are abused by their husbands ... Themselves...They Need To Be Controlled!”. In this narrative, the show begins by having the husband talk to Maury ...
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  Manic Pixie Dream Girls: The Life and Death of A Toxic Trope

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  AaLeiyah Bell

  March 26, 2021

  Getting rid of the MPDG is only the beginning of overturning toxic tropes regarding women in art, but it ...
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  Celebrating Kandy Fong: Founder of Fannish Music Video

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  Francesca Coppa Muhlenberg College

  November 19, 2007

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  with found footage, since at least 1975, when Kandy Fong made her first slideshows. Inspired by the ...
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  The Essence of a Women's Prison: Where Orange Is the New Black Falls Short

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  Daisy Ball Framingham State University

  March 14, 2014

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  The Essence of a Women's Prison: Where Orange Is the New Black Falls Short women television Orange is the New Black, Curator's Note While OITNB doesn’t claim to be a documentary of the lived-realities of incarcerated women, the show is positione ...
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  The Comfort Women of the Digital Industries: Asian Women in David Fincher's "The Social Network"

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  January 17, 2011

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  The Comfort Women of the Digital Industries: Asian Women in David Fincher's "The Social Network" women The Social Network race Productions of Digital Cultures Asian Curator's Note David Fincher's  The Social Network  (2010) tells ...
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  Can This Soap Be Saved?

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  Elana Levine

  February 14, 2012

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  Can This Soap Be Saved? women General Hospital Future of Soap Opera daytime TV Curator's Note  With Katie Couric's syndicated talk show poised to take over General Hospital 's time slot on a substantial number of ABC affiliaties come Septem ...
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  What Fangirls Want: Making More of and More from Marvel's Men

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  Kayley Thomas University of Florida

  May 11, 2012

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  What Fangirls Want: Making More of and More from Marvel's Men women The Avengers participatory culture media studies kayley thomas gender fanvid fandom Fan Studies fan fiction comics Curator's Note Some might say The Avengers ’ record-breaking d ...
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  Why Women Don’t Get Ahead In Advertising

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  Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Manchester Metropolitan University

  April 21, 2009

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  Why Women Don’t Get Ahead In Advertising women Mad Men Joan Holloway Peggy Olson Foucault Silence Curator's Note Psst! Wanna know a secret. Mad Men isn’t about men at all.   But about subjectivities in the making: how men construct identities for wom ...