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...; the role of black song writers and performers in contributing to the shift in crooning’s meaning, and the growing importance of female audiences in determining content and promoting performers. Analysis of sheet music is foregrounded, as well as publisher memoirs. The racial, gender, and class implications...

... of desires of young females audiences, themselves stigmatized as tasteless and silly. The chapter concludes with a discussion of hopeful changes in this persistent cultural effemiphobia as represented by the success of tv stars like Adam Lambert and programs such as Glee and The Voice . voices...

... The popularity of images of witches and witchcraft in fifteenth and sixteenth century established a visual code for witchcraft in the West. This chapter argues for a vulvacentric reading of this code that reveals visual cues representing witchcraft as a story of female alliance, female knowledge...

... Drag became a gay bar staple in the 1960s as a shared audience expression of gay sensibility; the relationship between the performers and their fans marked these bars as gay. The terms female impersonation and drag have historically been used interchangeably, but this chapter traces...

... the kinds of movies that resonated with their audiences. female filmmakers Ghana digital distribution ...

...; the relationship between the performers and their fans marked these bars as gay. The terms female impersonation and drag have historically been used interchangeably, but this chapter traces their differential meanings to distinguish between acts performed for predominantly straight audiences (female impersonation...

... and sexualized subject, activist, and artist. Elmahdy’s affective body (the body that feels) surrenders full control, magnifies vulnerability, and exposes her to potential sexual harassment and violence in real time and space. Conversely her cyber body oppositionally seduces a voyeuristic audience, seeking...

... Female stardom is central to understanding many of the anxieties and pleasures that recycled stars invoke through public, multi-mediated emergence, loss, and return. The introduction to Recycled Stars situates this insight within an understanding of how the socially mediated practices around...

... Chapter 4 is a participatory, performative dialogic between the Prison Monologues and the students at Nānākuli and Kapolei High Schools, Title I schools on Honolulu's leeward/west side. The author analyzes high school students' reactions to female prisoner monologues in Hawai‘i and frames...

... this popularization as an "herstorical fantasy," a means of renegotiating women's roles in patriarchal society. The chapter also explores how female vocalists such as Stevie Nicks, with her Wiccan anthem "Rhiannon" (1976), embodied and projected the witch archetype, influencing subsequent generations of Wiccan...

... This chapter analyzes the author's dramatic story of pitching an article investigating the media coverage and complex politics of a highly publicized legal case in Michigan against a physician for performing female genital cutting (FGC). The case coincided with the introduction of new national...

... National Film and Video Foundation initiated a project known as the Female Only Filmmakers project. This chapter focuses on the first iteration of the project, from 2013 to 2016, which was led by the film producer Bongiwe Selane, and it analyzes three of the films that were made as part of the project...

... former romantic partner Claes Oldenburg. Focusing on a body of artworks that were made to highlight the connections between her work and that by male artists, for whom she often contributed labor without recognition, this discussion considers her claims for female agency in the context of how second-wave...