Talking back and acting out : women negotiating the media across cultures /

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Imprint:New York : Peter Lang, c2002.
Description:viii, 215 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Counterpoints ; v. 169
Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 169.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4840251
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Other authors / contributors:Jackson, Sandra, 1946-
Russo, Ann, 1957-
ISBN:082045172X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Sandra Jackson and Ann Russo
  • Encounters with Simulacra: The Media, Representations of Blackness, and Me / Sandra Jackson
  • Childhood Reflections from a Shattered Mirror: Looking for Images of Strong Asian Women / Elena Tajima Creef
  • Snapshots / Marilyn Katz
  • Images of Beauty: The Media, Marilyn, and Me / Harvette Grey
  • A Traves del Espejo (Through the Looking Glass) / Juana Q. Goergen
  • You Could Throw Them Away without Breaking Your Heart: My Life in Magazines / Elizabeth A. Kelly
  • Mirada de Mujer: Negotiating Latina Identities and the Telenovela / Layla P. Suleiman Gonzalez
  • What Puts the "Me" in Media? An Umphaloskeptic Interrogation of Television and Identity / Kate Kane
  • Kamasutra / Shailja Sharma
  • A Tangled Web / Lynn Lu
  • Before and After: A Story of Resistance / Elizabeth Jean Nelson
  • Contradictions at the Cook County Jail: Snapshots on the Complexities of Volunteering for Social Change / Erica Meiners
  • Becoming Visible: U.S. Latina Lesbians Talk Back and Act Out / Lourdes Torres
  • Everyday Use, or How I Stole Othello and What I Did with Him / Francesca T. Royster
  • Living in the Hyphen-Nation / Laila Farah
  • Stories of Survival, Stories of Resistance / Ann Russo.