This article endeavours to address the relative inattention to gender in international education research and the invisibility of women whose partners are international students. It draws on data from interviews with 17 women involved in a broader doctoral research project during 2005 and 2006. The article uses ‘home’ as a lens for examining women’s situated …
This article examines the creative relationship between lives and stories and the intrinsic relationship between autobiography and fiction, with particular attention to the ‘scandalous memoirists’ of the mid-eighteenth century. By using the more flexible concept of life-writing, the article highlights the porous nature of genres at this time and the way in which strict categorisation …
This chapter explores the various forms that the ‘cougar’, the mature and sophisticated woman who dates younger men, takes in television and film in the new millennium, contrasting fictional representations with ‘real’ celebrity cougars currently ill the media spotlight. It also examines Cougar Town, the ABC sitcom launched in September 2009, starring Courteney Cox as …
