Content tagged "gender"
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Gendering Robots: Posthuman Sexism in Japan
Jennifer Roberston explores and interrogates the gendering of humanoid robots manufactured today in Japan for use in the home and workplace.
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Changing Her Tune: How a Transsexual Woman Claims a New Identity through Voice
Transgender women have many hurdles to face as they transition from male to female, and possessing an authentic voice is a way to smooth out the bumpy path they face.
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Men Imagining a Girl Revolution
Sharon Kinsella examines the media constructions of a teenage female revolt in contemporary Japan drawing from her current book project Girls as Energy: Fantasies of Social Rejuvenation.
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Cultured Men, Uncultured Women: An Exploration of the Gendered Hierarchy of Taste Governing Afghan Radio
An ethnographic investigation to examine local Afghan radio’s various relationships with women during this intense period of reconstruction in Afghanistan.
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The Book as Looking Glass: Improving Works for and about Children in Early Modern England
Exploring three developments pertaining to children and reading in seventeenth-century England, including how profoundly death was implicated in the development of thought about children’s reading.
