Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood, Paperback - Mick Lasalle

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The female experience of the 1960s is reflected on in cultural, sociological and political terms, tracing the significance of Flower Power, the pil...

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Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. In this book, Suzannah Lipscomb recovers the lives and ...

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A call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that explores women's roles - both in front of and behind the camera - since the ...

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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, her experience reporting for People magazine, and dozens of interviews with photographers, journalists, publicis...

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Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that this Greek Christian theocracy bore little rese...

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Record contracts have been the goal of aspiring musicians, but are they still important in the era of SoundCloud? Musicians in the United States st...

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A bold reconsideration of women in art - from the 'Old Masters' to the posts of Instagram influencers.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Catherine McC...

During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army...

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Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control our food supply. Just how concentrated has this ...

The first substantial study of multilingual film in France. Unpacking the power dynamics at play in the dialogue of eight emblematic films, this bo...

Describe a pervasive way of conducting private and public affairs in which state and local office holders throughout Hawaii took their personal fin...

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Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition mig...

Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political theorists of the twentieth century to wrestle with the role of violence in public life. Yet remarka...

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While the spiritual atmosphere grows more toxic and the world becomes more anti-God, Christians are engaging less with their faith in Christ and th...

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Combining archaeological, literary and numismatic evidence, John Creighton paints a vivid picture of how people in late Iron Age Britain reacted to...

Publisher: Astra HouseAuthor(s): Farah NayeriNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera fa...