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‘Heroines of their own romance’: Creative Exchanges between Life-Writing and Fiction, the ‘Scandalous Memoirists’ and Charlotte Lennox

2011-2020, Case Study, Foreign, Gender, Journal/Magazine/Review / By

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 …

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‘Get a life, ladies. Your old one is not coming back’: ageing, ageism and the lifespan of female celebrity

2011-2020, Convention/Conference/Discussion Paper, Foreign, Gender, Journal/Magazine/Review, Social Development / By

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 …

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‘Body Politics’ and negotiating gender violence and child sexuality through Flatfoot Dance Company’s youth arts intervention programmes in KwaZulu-Natal – a case study (2003–2013)

Case Study, Foreign, Gender, Gender-Based Violence / By

This perspective offers a feminist engagement with the ‘dancing body’ and the languages which it articulates and which it inscribes, in order to examine how social, cultural and political discourse and ideology permeate the use and reading of this body. The perspective asks that in stepping into the difficult terrain of looking at childhood sexuality …

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