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  Between the Lines: Finding Feminist Possibility Spaces in Kathy Rain: A Detective is Born

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  Andrea Braithwaite University of Ontario Institute of Technology

  September 07, 2017

  Between the Lines: Finding Feminist Possibility Spaces in Kathy Rain: A Detective is Born ... scholars call the “possibility space” – what a game makes possible, and impossible, through its design. For ... leave the biker bar, and we can’t say something conciliatory in response.It seems like less is possible ...
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  FX Brand Feminism and Justified's Older Women

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  Jorie Lagerwey University College Dublin

  April 28, 2014

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  its “edgy outsider” brand strategy, and reflects feminism's contemporary status as a dirty word. ... rural, possibly insane or otherwise marginalized; characters like Katey Sagal’s biker gang matriarch on ...
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  The Mouth Wants What It Wants

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  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  June 22, 2007

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  American diet-- suggests that it might be possible to reclaim a liberated, hyper-masculine subjectivity ... his underwear, and tosses them into a burning trash canister). Taken collectively, I’m interested in ...
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  From Representation to Simulation: A Videogame Translation of the Bechdel Test

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  Robin Haislett Texas Tech University

  March 15, 2013

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  a gender identity outside of normative masculinity? 2) Do(es) this/these character(s) have access to the ... question one, we move past the question of female representation and into one of gender simulations outside ...
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  One of the GRRRLS: Lizzo and the Feminist Potential of Musical Collaboration

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  Alyxandra Vesey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  January 26, 2016

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  electrifying in demonstrating what’s possible when women think beyond the squad and present themselves as ...
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  Can Catwoman Challenge Patriarchy?

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  Michael Lecker George Mason University

  September 28, 2007

  Batman driven narrative? What ideologies is Selina questioning with such quotes as “Tell me I’m not in ...
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  Inside Amy Schumer: Just enough feminism? Or not feminist enough?

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  Diana DePasquale Bowling Green State University

  August 20, 2014

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  does feature sketches from a female perspective and critiques misogyny and sexism, I’m not sure how ...
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  Non-Compliance: Bitch Planet and Feminist Exploitation

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  Alicia Kozma University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  November 05, 2015

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  term exploitation add value to the text? Outside of signaling stylistic inspiration, the tag—despite ...
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  Miss Independent, or Between Women- Reconsidered

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  Karen Tongson University of Southern California

  March 12, 2009

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  configurations of love—like friendship—that carry other affective promises. We forget the fun and joy possible in ...
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  Leslie Knope- My Feminist Heroine

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  Faye Woods University of Reading

  June 05, 2012

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  ‘loosened up’ by the love of a good man (I’m looking at you Heigl). In Pawnee, Leslie’s workplace dedication ...

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