Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520284142
- eISBN:
- 9780520959798
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520284142.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
Are girls taking over the world? It would appear so based on magazine covers, news headlines, and popularized books touting girls’ academic success. As a result, many in Western society assume that ...
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Are girls taking over the world? It would appear so based on magazine covers, news headlines, and popularized books touting girls’ academic success. As a result, many in Western society assume that girls now play on an equal playing field so have nothing to complain about. But contrary to the widespread belief that girls have surpassed the need for support because they are ‘doing well’ in school, smart girls struggle in ways that have been made invisible. Why do some girls choose to dumb down? How do smart girls handle being labeled ‘nerd’ or ‘loner? How do they deal with stress, including the ‘Supergirl’ drive for perfection? How are race and class part of smart girls’ negotiations of academic success? And how do smart girls engage with the sexism that is still present in schools, in spite of messages to the contrary? Set against the powerful backdrops of post-feminism and neo-liberalism where girls are told they now ‘have it all’, Smart Girls sheds light on girls’ varied everyday experiences, strategic negotiations of traditional gender norms, and the savoring of success – all while keeping their eyes on an A+ and a bright future.Less
Are girls taking over the world? It would appear so based on magazine covers, news headlines, and popularized books touting girls’ academic success. As a result, many in Western society assume that girls now play on an equal playing field so have nothing to complain about. But contrary to the widespread belief that girls have surpassed the need for support because they are ‘doing well’ in school, smart girls struggle in ways that have been made invisible. Why do some girls choose to dumb down? How do smart girls handle being labeled ‘nerd’ or ‘loner? How do they deal with stress, including the ‘Supergirl’ drive for perfection? How are race and class part of smart girls’ negotiations of academic success? And how do smart girls engage with the sexism that is still present in schools, in spite of messages to the contrary? Set against the powerful backdrops of post-feminism and neo-liberalism where girls are told they now ‘have it all’, Smart Girls sheds light on girls’ varied everyday experiences, strategic negotiations of traditional gender norms, and the savoring of success – all while keeping their eyes on an A+ and a bright future.
Helena Waddy
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195371277
- eISBN:
- 9780199777341
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195371277.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Chapter Six introduces Oberammergau’s venerable Music Club, whose members, dressed in colorful uniforms, played a crucial role in both Catholic processions and the entertainment of tourists, as well ...
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Chapter Six introduces Oberammergau’s venerable Music Club, whose members, dressed in colorful uniforms, played a crucial role in both Catholic processions and the entertainment of tourists, as well as Passion seasons. Yet they led an oblique form of democratic opposition to Mayor Lang after the 1934 Passion Play season was completed. Both Nazis and Catholics pursued their separate cultural agendas in an increasingly hostile dynamic during the mid 1930s. Nazi organizations included the Women’s League, the German Labor Front and its Strength through Joy subsidiary, the Community Welfare Association, the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls. Catholics faced increasing restrictions on their associational activities but maintained an active ritual round, despite eventual circumscription of their traditional processions. The single Jew living in Oberammergau was driven out during Kristallnacht in 1938 and forced into emigration following a brief stint in Dachau.Less
Chapter Six introduces Oberammergau’s venerable Music Club, whose members, dressed in colorful uniforms, played a crucial role in both Catholic processions and the entertainment of tourists, as well as Passion seasons. Yet they led an oblique form of democratic opposition to Mayor Lang after the 1934 Passion Play season was completed. Both Nazis and Catholics pursued their separate cultural agendas in an increasingly hostile dynamic during the mid 1930s. Nazi organizations included the Women’s League, the German Labor Front and its Strength through Joy subsidiary, the Community Welfare Association, the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls. Catholics faced increasing restrictions on their associational activities but maintained an active ritual round, despite eventual circumscription of their traditional processions. The single Jew living in Oberammergau was driven out during Kristallnacht in 1938 and forced into emigration following a brief stint in Dachau.
Julia Bush
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199248773
- eISBN:
- 9780191714689
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248773.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Women's wider social duty was understood by most female anti-suffragists to be a benign extension of their maternal role, though it must not be allowed to overshadow home life. The lives of the five ...
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Women's wider social duty was understood by most female anti-suffragists to be a benign extension of their maternal role, though it must not be allowed to overshadow home life. The lives of the five women discussed in Chapter 2 are followed through in relation to their social activism at the end of the 19th century. Individual social action gradually led to a deepening involvement in collective work for philanthropic and religious causes. The National Union of Women Workers was the largest ‘umbrella’ organization for womanly social service from the 1890s onwards, and an important meeting ground for suffragists and anti-suffragists until an acrimonious split within its Council in 1912-13. The major Anglican women's organizations — the Girls' Friendly Society and the Mothers' Union — were more successful in maintaining an apolitical stance at the height of the suffrage campaign, whilst at the same time subtly reinforcing the gender conservatism which underpinned female anti-suffragism.Less
Women's wider social duty was understood by most female anti-suffragists to be a benign extension of their maternal role, though it must not be allowed to overshadow home life. The lives of the five women discussed in Chapter 2 are followed through in relation to their social activism at the end of the 19th century. Individual social action gradually led to a deepening involvement in collective work for philanthropic and religious causes. The National Union of Women Workers was the largest ‘umbrella’ organization for womanly social service from the 1890s onwards, and an important meeting ground for suffragists and anti-suffragists until an acrimonious split within its Council in 1912-13. The major Anglican women's organizations — the Girls' Friendly Society and the Mothers' Union — were more successful in maintaining an apolitical stance at the height of the suffrage campaign, whilst at the same time subtly reinforcing the gender conservatism which underpinned female anti-suffragism.
Jennifer Higginbotham
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780748655908
- eISBN:
- 9780748684397
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748655908.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters argues for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system in England, challenging the widespread assumption that the category ...
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The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters argues for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system in England, challenging the widespread assumption that the category of the ‘girl’ played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. Girl characters appeared in a variety of texts, from female infants in Shakespeare’s late romances to little children in Tudor interludes to adult “roaring girls” in city comedies, and this monograph offers the first book-length study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the ‘girl.’Less
The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters argues for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system in England, challenging the widespread assumption that the category of the ‘girl’ played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. Girl characters appeared in a variety of texts, from female infants in Shakespeare’s late romances to little children in Tudor interludes to adult “roaring girls” in city comedies, and this monograph offers the first book-length study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the ‘girl.’
Kathryn Talalay
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195113938
- eISBN:
- 9780199853816
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195113938.003.0015
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
In the year 1946 Philippa made a debut in the bizarre double role of composer and performer and competed in several national composition contests, and she performed throughout America. All of this ...
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In the year 1946 Philippa made a debut in the bizarre double role of composer and performer and competed in several national composition contests, and she performed throughout America. All of this helped her to cope with the aftermath of reading the scrapbooks and superficially recover from her depression. Her double debut happened at Lewisohn Stadium and many music critics, like Robert Hague, were amazed with her performance. She performed “Rumplestiltskin” twice, first at Carnegie Hall and second during the annual Festival of Music and Art at Fisk University. Philippa was also invited to become a junior advisory editor for Calling All Girls, having herself a social life. Yet, the Schuylers during this time were experiencing financial difficulties as a result of the rising cost of Philippa's training. In addition her mother was also living beyond her means with a new gaudy lifestyle.Less
In the year 1946 Philippa made a debut in the bizarre double role of composer and performer and competed in several national composition contests, and she performed throughout America. All of this helped her to cope with the aftermath of reading the scrapbooks and superficially recover from her depression. Her double debut happened at Lewisohn Stadium and many music critics, like Robert Hague, were amazed with her performance. She performed “Rumplestiltskin” twice, first at Carnegie Hall and second during the annual Festival of Music and Art at Fisk University. Philippa was also invited to become a junior advisory editor for Calling All Girls, having herself a social life. Yet, the Schuylers during this time were experiencing financial difficulties as a result of the rising cost of Philippa's training. In addition her mother was also living beyond her means with a new gaudy lifestyle.
Bruce Vermazen
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195372182
- eISBN:
- 9780199864140
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372182.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
After a description of vaudeville c.1905, especially its organization into circuits and its division into big time and small time, this chapter traces the vaudeville career of the succession of ...
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After a description of vaudeville c.1905, especially its organization into circuits and its division into big time and small time, this chapter traces the vaudeville career of the succession of multi-instrumental musical acts involving Tom Brown and his brothers, from their earliest known tour (1905) until their flowering as the Six Brown Brothers in 1911. During the 1909-10 season, the Five Brown Brothers toured with a burlesque show called Broadway Gaiety Girls. During 1910-11, they toured the Orpheum circuit and played at the Folies Bergere nightclub in Manhattan.Less
After a description of vaudeville c.1905, especially its organization into circuits and its division into big time and small time, this chapter traces the vaudeville career of the succession of multi-instrumental musical acts involving Tom Brown and his brothers, from their earliest known tour (1905) until their flowering as the Six Brown Brothers in 1911. During the 1909-10 season, the Five Brown Brothers toured with a burlesque show called Broadway Gaiety Girls. During 1910-11, they toured the Orpheum circuit and played at the Folies Bergere nightclub in Manhattan.
John Franceschina
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199754298
- eISBN:
- 9780199949878
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199754298.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Dance, Popular
Hermes Pan moves to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to choreograph The Barkleys of Broadway with Fred Astaire and Judy Garland but is released at Garland’s request after the completion of the “Shoes With Wings ...
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Hermes Pan moves to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to choreograph The Barkleys of Broadway with Fred Astaire and Judy Garland but is released at Garland’s request after the completion of the “Shoes With Wings On” routine. He contracts with Mike Todd to choreograph As the Girls Go on Broadway and joins composer Jimmy McHugh, lyricist Harold Adamson, and director Howard Bay at Todd’s Irvington Estate to begin work. After five weeks of rehearsal the show opens in Boston with costumes by Oleg Cassini on 13 October 1948 to devastating reviews. After three weeks of reworking, the musical opened in New Haven to excellent notices anticipating a triumphant premiere in New York City on 13 November.Less
Hermes Pan moves to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to choreograph The Barkleys of Broadway with Fred Astaire and Judy Garland but is released at Garland’s request after the completion of the “Shoes With Wings On” routine. He contracts with Mike Todd to choreograph As the Girls Go on Broadway and joins composer Jimmy McHugh, lyricist Harold Adamson, and director Howard Bay at Todd’s Irvington Estate to begin work. After five weeks of rehearsal the show opens in Boston with costumes by Oleg Cassini on 13 October 1948 to devastating reviews. After three weeks of reworking, the musical opened in New Haven to excellent notices anticipating a triumphant premiere in New York City on 13 November.
Edmund L. Drago
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823229376
- eISBN:
- 9780823234912
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823229376.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter discusses the after-effects of Civil War on marriage customs and girlhood in South Carolina. It cites the reprint of Enquirer's “Something for the Girls,” as it warns girls to put a high ...
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This chapter discusses the after-effects of Civil War on marriage customs and girlhood in South Carolina. It cites the reprint of Enquirer's “Something for the Girls,” as it warns girls to put a high price on themselves when choosing a husband. Difficult as always, the war made it harder for parents and educators to monitor the young, who were smitten with romantic patriotism. Younger girls were participating too early in courting and other premarital rituals.Less
This chapter discusses the after-effects of Civil War on marriage customs and girlhood in South Carolina. It cites the reprint of Enquirer's “Something for the Girls,” as it warns girls to put a high price on themselves when choosing a husband. Difficult as always, the war made it harder for parents and educators to monitor the young, who were smitten with romantic patriotism. Younger girls were participating too early in courting and other premarital rituals.
Leanne McCormick
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719076640
- eISBN:
- 9781781702666
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719076640.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter analyses the organisations and discourses in Northern Ireland concerning the preservation of female moral standards, suggesting that the links between national identity and female sexual ...
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This chapter analyses the organisations and discourses in Northern Ireland concerning the preservation of female moral standards, suggesting that the links between national identity and female sexual morality illustrate the importance of preserving female purity and female behaviour as a means of strengthening unity and identity. It considers the work of several organisations including the Girl Guides, Girls' Friendly Society and Girls' Auxiliary in the wider social and political context of moral and preventative work.Less
This chapter analyses the organisations and discourses in Northern Ireland concerning the preservation of female moral standards, suggesting that the links between national identity and female sexual morality illustrate the importance of preserving female purity and female behaviour as a means of strengthening unity and identity. It considers the work of several organisations including the Girl Guides, Girls' Friendly Society and Girls' Auxiliary in the wider social and political context of moral and preventative work.
Heather D. Switzer
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042034
- eISBN:
- 9780252050770
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042034.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, African Studies
Becoming “People Who Use Both Hands,” argues the contours of the still-unfolding social category of Maasai schoolgirlhood raise conceptual (and therefore political) questions about the convergence of ...
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Becoming “People Who Use Both Hands,” argues the contours of the still-unfolding social category of Maasai schoolgirlhood raise conceptual (and therefore political) questions about the convergence of power and knowledge shaping current commonsense for girls’ empowerment through development investment. The chapter theorizes GID (Girls in Development) as a distinct paradigm for framing girls in development discourse and practice that is informed by and also distinct from WID (Women in Development) and GAD (Gender and Development) by situating its emergence genealogically. In the context of GID, the chapter then theorizes schoolgirlhood as a dialectical site of possibility rather than a straightforward sign of “empowerment.”Less
Becoming “People Who Use Both Hands,” argues the contours of the still-unfolding social category of Maasai schoolgirlhood raise conceptual (and therefore political) questions about the convergence of power and knowledge shaping current commonsense for girls’ empowerment through development investment. The chapter theorizes GID (Girls in Development) as a distinct paradigm for framing girls in development discourse and practice that is informed by and also distinct from WID (Women in Development) and GAD (Gender and Development) by situating its emergence genealogically. In the context of GID, the chapter then theorizes schoolgirlhood as a dialectical site of possibility rather than a straightforward sign of “empowerment.”
Marilyn Booth
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780748694860
- eISBN:
- 9781474408639
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694860.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature
Gives a history of the volume’s publication and circulation within the context of the early non-official press and book publishing sector in Egypt, followed by a discussion of the book’s themes as ...
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Gives a history of the volume’s publication and circulation within the context of the early non-official press and book publishing sector in Egypt, followed by a discussion of the book’s themes as illustrated by its biographies of individual women. These themes include the importance for girl readers of learning history, or history reading as moral pedagogy; the importance and ideal content of girls’ education; marriage as supportive and destructive to women, and the new ideal of ‘companionate marriage’; women and political power; women and scholarship; and women and waged work. These were all addressed in Fawwaz’s essays as well, some of which feature here. Discussion of individual biographies offers a sense of the wide-ranging geographical and temporal scope of Fawwaz’s achievement.Less
Gives a history of the volume’s publication and circulation within the context of the early non-official press and book publishing sector in Egypt, followed by a discussion of the book’s themes as illustrated by its biographies of individual women. These themes include the importance for girl readers of learning history, or history reading as moral pedagogy; the importance and ideal content of girls’ education; marriage as supportive and destructive to women, and the new ideal of ‘companionate marriage’; women and political power; women and scholarship; and women and waged work. These were all addressed in Fawwaz’s essays as well, some of which feature here. Discussion of individual biographies offers a sense of the wide-ranging geographical and temporal scope of Fawwaz’s achievement.
Katherine Irwin and Karen Umemoto
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520283022
- eISBN:
- 9780520958883
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520283022.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
Chapter three examines girls’ early childhood experiences in families and at school, and we highlight the pressures that girls uniquely experienced while growing up. We look at how girls’ family ...
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Chapter three examines girls’ early childhood experiences in families and at school, and we highlight the pressures that girls uniquely experienced while growing up. We look at how girls’ family responsibilities, dress, demeanor, and their status in families and at school were constrained by numerous gender inequalities – a set of conditions that the girls thought of as inherently unfair and “unjust.” Considering these pressures, some girls spoke and struck out against those who harassed and targeted them, sometimes violently.Less
Chapter three examines girls’ early childhood experiences in families and at school, and we highlight the pressures that girls uniquely experienced while growing up. We look at how girls’ family responsibilities, dress, demeanor, and their status in families and at school were constrained by numerous gender inequalities – a set of conditions that the girls thought of as inherently unfair and “unjust.” Considering these pressures, some girls spoke and struck out against those who harassed and targeted them, sometimes violently.
Alfonso Muñoz-Corcuera
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496813275
- eISBN:
- 9781496813312
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496813275.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter studies Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls and how it deals with another topic that is being discussed in contemporary aesthetics: identification with fictional characters. ...
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This chapter studies Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls and how it deals with another topic that is being discussed in contemporary aesthetics: identification with fictional characters. However, most philosophers hold that people cannot identify with fictional characters. When someone says that they identify with a certain fictional character, they are just wrong, or, at best, using the term in a metaphorical sense. The chapter shows how, because a given situation always has different aspects, identification happens with regard to different aspects too. It puts forward a concept called “egocentric identification,” which refers to the identifying of oneself with a fictional character, caring about them in the same way someone cares about themselves.Less
This chapter studies Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls and how it deals with another topic that is being discussed in contemporary aesthetics: identification with fictional characters. However, most philosophers hold that people cannot identify with fictional characters. When someone says that they identify with a certain fictional character, they are just wrong, or, at best, using the term in a metaphorical sense. The chapter shows how, because a given situation always has different aspects, identification happens with regard to different aspects too. It puts forward a concept called “egocentric identification,” which refers to the identifying of oneself with a fictional character, caring about them in the same way someone cares about themselves.
Susan M. Shaw
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813124766
- eISBN:
- 9780813135083
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813124766.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This chapter discusses women's ministering among Southern Baptists, which has led them to take on traditional responsibilities of nurturing and educating. It has also compelled them to challenge ...
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This chapter discusses women's ministering among Southern Baptists, which has led them to take on traditional responsibilities of nurturing and educating. It has also compelled them to challenge gender norms and traditional roles that have excluded women from ordained ministry and the pastorate. This chapter looks at two Southern Baptist female missionaries, Lottie Moon and Annie Armstrong, and other facets of the ministry, including the Girls' Auxiliary and the Mother Seminary.Less
This chapter discusses women's ministering among Southern Baptists, which has led them to take on traditional responsibilities of nurturing and educating. It has also compelled them to challenge gender norms and traditional roles that have excluded women from ordained ministry and the pastorate. This chapter looks at two Southern Baptist female missionaries, Lottie Moon and Annie Armstrong, and other facets of the ministry, including the Girls' Auxiliary and the Mother Seminary.
Jaime Schultz
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038167
- eISBN:
- 9780252095962
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038167.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter discusses how women physical educators began to reevaluate their collective position against intercollegiate, commercial, and hypercompetitive sports for their students. Particular ...
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This chapter discusses how women physical educators began to reevaluate their collective position against intercollegiate, commercial, and hypercompetitive sports for their students. Particular attention is given to a series of National Institutes on Girls' Sports, jointly sponsored by the Division for Girls and Women's Sports (DGWS) and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) that took place during the 1960s. At these clinics, educators, recreation leaders, and other interested parties learned the necessary tools to teach sport skills to their respective charges and to encourage them to engage in “the right kind of competition.” The emergent groundswell of support was an important antecedent to the subsequent developments in women's sport.Less
This chapter discusses how women physical educators began to reevaluate their collective position against intercollegiate, commercial, and hypercompetitive sports for their students. Particular attention is given to a series of National Institutes on Girls' Sports, jointly sponsored by the Division for Girls and Women's Sports (DGWS) and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) that took place during the 1960s. At these clinics, educators, recreation leaders, and other interested parties learned the necessary tools to teach sport skills to their respective charges and to encourage them to engage in “the right kind of competition.” The emergent groundswell of support was an important antecedent to the subsequent developments in women's sport.
Tony Whitehead
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719072369
- eISBN:
- 9781781703298
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719072369.003.0036
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter draws attention to Mike Leigh's film, Career Girls, that focused on just two young women, Hannah and Annie, who used to be flat-mates when they were students in the mid-1980s and, having ...
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This chapter draws attention to Mike Leigh's film, Career Girls, that focused on just two young women, Hannah and Annie, who used to be flat-mates when they were students in the mid-1980s and, having not seen each other for six years, spend a weekend together at Hannah's London home, which turns out to be a weekend full of coincidences and unexpected blasts from the past. Leigh made no attempt to obscure these coincidences, which the characters point out and discuss, as Stella Bruzzi noted in her review of the film in Sight and Sound: ‘Career Girls flaunts its own artifice, deliberately announcing itself as a deeply implausible tale. Similarly unrealistic is the use for the first time in Leigh's films of flashbacks, a familiar enough cinematic device, but an overtly non-naturalistic one, deployed extensively here to make explicit contrasts. The film shows, through the warmth of their characterisation and the acute observation of those around them, how Hannah and Annie have developed as people while staying true to themselves and to each other.Less
This chapter draws attention to Mike Leigh's film, Career Girls, that focused on just two young women, Hannah and Annie, who used to be flat-mates when they were students in the mid-1980s and, having not seen each other for six years, spend a weekend together at Hannah's London home, which turns out to be a weekend full of coincidences and unexpected blasts from the past. Leigh made no attempt to obscure these coincidences, which the characters point out and discuss, as Stella Bruzzi noted in her review of the film in Sight and Sound: ‘Career Girls flaunts its own artifice, deliberately announcing itself as a deeply implausible tale. Similarly unrealistic is the use for the first time in Leigh's films of flashbacks, a familiar enough cinematic device, but an overtly non-naturalistic one, deployed extensively here to make explicit contrasts. The film shows, through the warmth of their characterisation and the acute observation of those around them, how Hannah and Annie have developed as people while staying true to themselves and to each other.
Diane Railton and Paul Watson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748633227
- eISBN:
- 9780748671021
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633227.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter situates the music video between feminism and popular culture. The notion of postfeminism became a key weapon in the ‘pre-emptive strike’ that prevented feminism reaching its political ...
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This chapter situates the music video between feminism and popular culture. The notion of postfeminism became a key weapon in the ‘pre-emptive strike’ that prevented feminism reaching its political terminus. Pink's ‘Stupid Girls’ is regarded as distinctly postfeminist. In terms of ‘Stupid Girls’, the video's own irony and playfulness is activated to drive home its critique of women who now have choices but use those choices to turn themselves into sexual objects. It is assumed that patriarchy is no longer a problem and that real choices can be freely made. Specifically in terms of music video, there are a number of important factors which bear on the ‘way they turn out the way they do’ and, moreover, how they make their meaning.Less
This chapter situates the music video between feminism and popular culture. The notion of postfeminism became a key weapon in the ‘pre-emptive strike’ that prevented feminism reaching its political terminus. Pink's ‘Stupid Girls’ is regarded as distinctly postfeminist. In terms of ‘Stupid Girls’, the video's own irony and playfulness is activated to drive home its critique of women who now have choices but use those choices to turn themselves into sexual objects. It is assumed that patriarchy is no longer a problem and that real choices can be freely made. Specifically in terms of music video, there are a number of important factors which bear on the ‘way they turn out the way they do’ and, moreover, how they make their meaning.
Alison Owings
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520217508
- eISBN:
- 9780520931220
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520217508.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
This chapter examines the stories of the experiences of several waitresses, which also provide glimpses of certain events and facets of American history. One is a Native American waitress, while ...
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This chapter examines the stories of the experiences of several waitresses, which also provide glimpses of certain events and facets of American history. One is a Native American waitress, while another was involved in the first southern sit-in. The chapter provides the story of the head of the oldest permanent waitresses union in Seattle, as well as an account of one of the Harvey Girls, a group of waitresses who worked in the Harvey restaurants along the Santa Fe railway. It also looks at the oldest waitress in the world, and a waitress who fought for women's rights.Less
This chapter examines the stories of the experiences of several waitresses, which also provide glimpses of certain events and facets of American history. One is a Native American waitress, while another was involved in the first southern sit-in. The chapter provides the story of the head of the oldest permanent waitresses union in Seattle, as well as an account of one of the Harvey Girls, a group of waitresses who worked in the Harvey restaurants along the Santa Fe railway. It also looks at the oldest waitress in the world, and a waitress who fought for women's rights.
David Martin-Jones
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748633913
- eISBN:
- 9780748651207
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633913.003.0100
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines film comedies made and set in Scotland. It explores why comedies are either ignored in academic debates surrounding cinema in Scotland, or their comedic aspect downplayed in ...
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This chapter examines film comedies made and set in Scotland. It explores why comedies are either ignored in academic debates surrounding cinema in Scotland, or their comedic aspect downplayed in favour of more ‘serious’ topics dealt with by individual filmmakers. Through indepth analysis of Gregory's Two Girls (1999) and Festival (2005), it argues that Scottish filmmakers use comedy as a mode of film production, with certain contemporary Scottish films deploying their comedic elements to construct an ‘edgy’ comedy, designed to make audiences laugh, whilst dealing with serious issues that are perhaps more recognisable, if not more relevant, in Scotland than elsewhere. These two films in particular use a comedic mode to examine Scotland's changing national identity in an increasingly global context.Less
This chapter examines film comedies made and set in Scotland. It explores why comedies are either ignored in academic debates surrounding cinema in Scotland, or their comedic aspect downplayed in favour of more ‘serious’ topics dealt with by individual filmmakers. Through indepth analysis of Gregory's Two Girls (1999) and Festival (2005), it argues that Scottish filmmakers use comedy as a mode of film production, with certain contemporary Scottish films deploying their comedic elements to construct an ‘edgy’ comedy, designed to make audiences laugh, whilst dealing with serious issues that are perhaps more recognisable, if not more relevant, in Scotland than elsewhere. These two films in particular use a comedic mode to examine Scotland's changing national identity in an increasingly global context.
Didi Herman
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199272235
- eISBN:
- 9780191699603
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199272235.003.0027
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
This chapter examines the governance of sexuality in mainstream, network television, focusing of the women's prison drama Bad Girls. It examines the role of popular television in constructing the ...
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This chapter examines the governance of sexuality in mainstream, network television, focusing of the women's prison drama Bad Girls. It examines the role of popular television in constructing the reproducing regulatory norms around sexuality and the extent to which it is possible to represent non-normative sexualities in prime time television. The show highlighted the problems of women in prison including poor healthcare, the treatment of mothers, and the inadequacy of mental health provision.Less
This chapter examines the governance of sexuality in mainstream, network television, focusing of the women's prison drama Bad Girls. It examines the role of popular television in constructing the reproducing regulatory norms around sexuality and the extent to which it is possible to represent non-normative sexualities in prime time television. The show highlighted the problems of women in prison including poor healthcare, the treatment of mothers, and the inadequacy of mental health provision.
