Browsing by Subject "masculinity"
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Discursive and political deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian women suicide bombers/martyrs
(Feminist Review, 2005-11-01)This paper focuses on representations by and deployments of the four Palestinian women who during the first four months of 2002 killed themselves in organized attacks against Israeli military personnel or civilians in the ... -
"i Have Ambition": Muhammad Ramadan's Proletarian Masculinities in Postrevolution Egyptian Cinema
(International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2020-01-01)Copyright © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press. This article provides a close reading of two popular Egyptian action films, al-Almani (The German, 2012), the first blockbuster since the 25 January ... -
Masculine love and sensuous reason: the affective and spatial politics of Egyptian Ultras football fans
(Gender, Place and Culture, 2018-10-03)© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article uses a feminist spatial approach attentive to masculine affect and difference to analyze the language, cultural production, and practices ... -
Melancholy Sites: The Affective Politics of Marginality in Post-Anpo Japan (1960-1970)
(2011)This dissertation examines the intersection of experimental art, literature, performance, photography, and architecture, as Japanese artists and intellectuals grappled with political disillusionment after the end of the ... -
Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius
(2018)This dissertation draws on Sigmund Freud’s essay “Mourning and Melancholia” (1917) to track melancholy and genius in black letters, culture, and history from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment; it contends ... -
Sympathy for the Devil: Volatile Masculinities in Recent German and American Literatures
(2011)This study investigates how an ambivalence surrounding men and masculinity has been expressed and exploited in Pop literature since the late 1980s, focusing on works by German-speaking authors Christian Kracht and Benjamin ... -
The Hidden Epidemic: Violence against Women in Haiti
(2011-05-04)Since the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, violence against women has frequently appeared in the media as one of the gravest consequences due to insecure living situations in settlement camps. This, however, is not newly ...
