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British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure
British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure
British Film Culture in the 1970s' provides a long-awaited and authoritative history of 1970s British cinema. Accounts previously presented the period's British film culture as without either coherence or quality.
Exposing Lifestyle Television
Exposing Lifestyle Television
In the last decade lifestyle television has become one of the most dominant television genres, with certain shows now global brands with formats exploited by producers all over the world. What unites these programmes is their belief that the human subject has a flexible, malleable identity that can be changed within television-friendly frameworks.
Feminist Forerunners: New Womanism and Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century
Feminist Forerunners: New Womanism and Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century
Most critics and scholars have long assumed that the women’s movement was almost exclusively a white middle-class women’s affair. This book counters the prevailing view by putting the spotlight on some remarkable women from other backgrounds.
Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television
Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television
Though science fiction certainly existed prior to the surge of television in the 1950s, the genre quickly established roots in the new medium and flourished in subsequent decades.
May Sinclair Moving Towards the Modern
May Sinclair Moving Towards the Modern
May Sinclair was a central figure in the modernist movement, whose contribution has long been underacknowledged. A woman of both modern and Victorian impulses, a popular novelist who also embraced modernist narrative techniques, Sinclair embodied the contradictions of her era.
Inside Out: Women negotiating, subverting, appropriating public and private space
Inside Out: Women negotiating, subverting, appropriating public and private space
The incursions of women into areas from which they had been traditionally excluded, together with the literary representations of their attempts to negotiate, subvert and appropriate these forbidden spaces, is the underlying theme that unites this collection of essays.
Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film
Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film
Anne Bower's Reel Food is an intellectual feast, where each essay serves a delicious new course filled with meaty morsels and delightful aromas. It provides thoughtful lenses in which to view the culinary dimensions of all films, but be prepared to reexamine the taste sensations of traditional food movies, such as Chocolat, Babette's Feast, Eat Drink Man Woman, and Tortilla Soup.
Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s
Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s
This collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939
Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939
This collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of women’s print media and dispels the myth of the interwar decades as a retreat to ‘home and duty’ for women.
The Recipe Reader: Narratives - Contexts - Traditions
The Recipe Reader: Narratives - Contexts - Traditions
“If you’re a recipe reader . . . you’ll find plenty of insights and substantial exploration within the pages of The Recipe Reader.” ―Gastronomica
Magazine Movements: Women's Culture, Feminisms and Media Form
Magazine Movements: Women's Culture, Feminisms and Media Form
While magazines in general have long been understood as a significant force in women's lives, many critiques have limited themselves to discussions of mainstream printed publications that engage with narrowly stereotypical representations of femininity.
Historicising the Women's Liberation Movement in the Western World 1960-1999
Historicising the Women's Liberation Movement in the Western World 1960-1999
This important time in women’s history is revisited in this collection, which looks afresh at the diversity of the movement and the ways in which feminism of the time might be reconsidered and historicised.
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Country cooking: Cookbooks and Counterculture in the 1970s
Country cooking: Cookbooks and Counterculture in the 1970s
Despite country cookbooks being styled along traditional lines, their increased popularity very much drew upon unconventional, countercultural movements of communal living, self-sufficiency and folk feminism.
The cookbook as a responsive form
The cookbook as a responsive form
More than holding a mirror to society and culture, these cookbooks are shown to be culturally responsive too.
My London
My London
When May Sinclair sat next to Mark Twain at his seventieth birthday party, apparently she sat there saying nothing, and at the end of the evening he thanked her for a ‘remarkably interesting silence’.
Spotlight on Portsmouth's inspiring woman thanks to community activism project
Spotlight on Portsmouth's inspiring woman thanks to community activism project
A spotlight has been shining on Portsmouth’s inspiring women thanks to a project which looked at activism in the city.
Spare Rib: 50 years since the groundbreaking feminist magazine first hit the streets – its legacy still inspires women
Spare Rib: 50 years since the groundbreaking feminist magazine first hit the streets – its legacy still inspires women
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The Hidden Heritage of a Naval Town: Women’s community activism in Portsmouth since 1960
The Hidden Heritage of a Naval Town: Women’s community activism in Portsmouth since 1960
The main aim of this project was to document the activism of women in the Portsmouth area by interviewing women from a range of backgrounds and with different interests in community issues.
#113 Laurel Forster: Women's Activism in Portsmouth
#113 Laurel Forster: Women's Activism in Portsmouth
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Quotidian Queerness
Quotidian Queerness
The great strength of this exhibition is its demonstration of the ubiquitous nature of queer art and culture.
Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s
Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s
Until fairly recently, women’s magazines were thought of as ephemeral entertainment, at best, or as consumption-driven vehicles for capitalist indoctrination, at worst.
Magazine Movements
Magazine Movements
While magazines in general have long been understood as a significant force in women's lives, many critiques have limited themselves to discussions of mainstream printed publications that engage with narrowly stereotypical representations of femininity.
Historicising the Women's Liberation Movement in the Western World
Historicising the Women's Liberation Movement in the Western World
This important time in women’s history is revisited in this collection, which looks afresh at the diversity of the movement and the ways in which feminism of the time might be reconsidered and historicised. The contributions here cover a range of important issues, including feminist art, local activism, class distinction, racial politics, perceptions of motherhood, girls’ education, feminist print cultures, the recovery of feminist histories and feminist heritage, and they span personal and political concerns in Britain, Canada and the United States.
British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade
British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade
This book makes an important intervention in the field of 1970s history. It is edited and introduced by Laurel Forster and Sue Harper, both experienced writers, and the book comprises work by both established and emerging scholars. Overall it makes an exciting interpretation of a momentous and colourful period in recent culture.
The Recipe Reader
The Recipe Reader
“If you’re a recipe reader . . . you’ll find plenty of insights and substantial exploration within the pages of The Recipe Reader.” ―Gastronomica
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