Entertainment and profit constitute the driving force behind popular representations of women in correctional facilities. But the creative influence of film and television also generates legal meaning. The women-in-prison (WIP) genre...
Women in motion pictures
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Auteur:Bouclin, SuzanneSommaire: - Auteur:Bouclin, SuzanneSommaire:
Women, Film, and Law convincingly argues that popular fictional depictions of women’s imprisonment can illuminate the multiple forms of marginalization, social exclusion, and oppression experienced by criminalized women. While...
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Auteur:Delvaux, Martine, De Lotbinière-Harwood, SusanneSommaire:Everywhere you look patriarchal society reduces women to a series of repeating symbols: serial girls. On TV and in film, on the internet and in magazines, pop culture and ancient architecture, serial girls are all around us, moving in...
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Auteur:Noble, Jean BobbySommaire:Conventional ideas about gender and sexuality dictate that people born with male bodies naturally possess both a man’s identity and a man’s right to authority. Recent scholarship in the field of gender studies, however, exposes the...
