Pin-up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture

Popular Culture and Female Sexuality : Consuming the ‘ Representations ’

Note to Readers: It is important to note that the focus groups conducted for this report are not based on a representative sample of young women between the ages of 14-24. Rather, our aim was to offer a starting point to further explore the representation of female sexuality and social networking technologies. Therefore, all references to the participants’ responses cannot be generalized. They ...

Christianity and Popular Culture

Myths of Popular Culture

The aim of this article is to explore some critical moments in the formation of ‘popular’ culture studies. This objective is not exhaustive, cannot be exhaustive in the space of a single article, since popular cultural studies have grown into an academic industry which not even five live-times of academic work by any individual can exhaust! This article is therefore, a rapid but hopefully, prov...

Care and Danger: Feminism and Therapy Culture

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, several prominent feminist legal scholars made a case for “difference feminism.” Inspired by psychologist Carol Gilligan’s classic text, In a Different Voice, these scholars argued that social relationships, caring, and the emotions should be recognized as important to jurisprudence and legal regulation. Today, difference feminism is no longer a dominant mov...

Sexuality in Contemporary Chinese Culture

It is certainly an odd experience to find among discussions of poverty, labor movement, democracy, identity, human rights, and spirituality, all serious sounding topics, a special session on the taboo subject of sexuality. It is even stranger to see sexuality included in a conference on building the civil society, an endeavor usually associated with a clearly defined public realm run by individ...