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Women in Neoliberal Postfeminist Television Drama

Representing Gendered Experiences of the Second World War

By: Cat Mahoney

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Women in Neoliberal Postfeminist Television Drama

Representing Gendered Experiences of the Second World War

By: Cat Mahoney

“In this insightful book, Cat Mahoney offers a fascinating analysis of contemporary TV dramas such as Home Fires, Land Girls and The Bletchley Circle. Developing the idea that history is told through the preoccupations of the present, she argues compellingly that these are postfeminist dramas which work through troubling ideas about heteronormative romance, domesticity, beauty and whiteness, while reinforcing the idea that feminism as a political movement is not necessary. A bold and original contribution to television studies, gender studies and popular history.” ̶ Rosalind Gill, City, University of London, UK By examining contemporary television drama set during and immediately after the Second World War, this book illustrates the ways in which postfeminism has shaped representations of women in contemporary culture. Mahoney offers a new perspective to debates that have previously been concerned with questions of historical accuracy. She argues that depictions of women from the past in modern television drama spawn from the neoliberal postfeminist media climate which originated in the 1990s. These depictions respond to a cultural need to naturalise and de-historicise a version of neoliberal postfeminist femininity that is compatible with the current media climate and far more reflective of the concerns of the present than any “real” or lived experience of women in the past. The result of this process of naturalisation is the assertion that postfeminist values are natural and eternal, rather than a product of the 1980s economic turn and the present political moment. By identifying and interrogating postfeminist norms within four television drama series produced since the 2008 financial crash, this book argues that postfeminism is a dominant structuring force in their depiction of female characters and of the past.

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140

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Springer Nature

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3030304493

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Undone

By: Cat Clarke

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Undone

By: Cat Clarke

Jem Halliday is in Love with Her Best Friend. It doesn't matter that Kai is gay, or that he'll never look at her the same way she looks at him. Their friendship is all she needs. But when Kai is outed online by one of their classmates, he does the unthinkable: he commits suicide. Jem's world is shattered. All she has left of her best friend are twelve letters—one for each month of the year—he wrote her before he died. Kai's letters beg her not to investigate what happened, but Jem can't let it go. She needs to know who did this, and she'll stop at nothing to find the person responsible for Kai's death. One way or another, someone is going down. Someone is going to pay... "I haven't felt so much for a book since If I Stay by Gayle Forman."—Confessions of a Book Addict "Undone is a story that will stick with me for a long time."—Book Passion for Life

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299

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402292252

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9781402292255

When Man Becomes Prey

Fatal Encounters with North America’s Most Feared Predators

By: Cat Urbigkit

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When Man Becomes Prey

Fatal Encounters with North America’s Most Feared Predators

By: Cat Urbigkit

When Man Becomes Prey examines the details of fatal predator attacks on humans, providing an opportunity to learn about the factors and behaviors that led to attacks. The predators profiled in the book include black bears, grizzly bears, mountain lions, coyotes, and gray wolves—the first time all five species have been included in one volume. Compelling narratives of conflicts involving these top predators are accompanied by how-to information for avoiding such clashes.

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227

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493015486

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9781493015481

Happy Is the Bride

By: Lori Wilde,Janet Dailey,Cat Johnson,Kate Pearce

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Happy Is the Bride

By: Lori Wilde,Janet Dailey,Cat Johnson,Kate Pearce

Love and trouble are in the air at a ranch wedding in Texas tornado country in this romance anthology featuring four New York Times–bestselling authors. Opposites attract when a wealthy cattleman and a penniless artist decide to get hitched at a Texas dude ranch in tornado country—and the whirlwind festivities are as filled with surprises as their love . . . especially when the guest list includes: one pretty party crasher on a mission, a sheriff known as the One Night Stand King, and a workaholic event planner who definitely did not plan to fall for a laid-back cowboy. Toss in a shocking behind-the-scenes bet, a fateful power outage, and a Man of Honor and a Best Woman determined to see the worst in each other (between hot kisses), plus thrilling lessons in love at first—and second—sight, and the celebrations are going to go all night long! “The lovers’ smart repartee is enjoyable, and each couple sizzles with chemistry. . . . There are plenty of heartwarming moments for fans of lighthearted fare.” —Publishers Weekly

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362

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Zebra Books

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1420142631

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9781420142631

Eve

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

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Eve

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

“A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, Eve recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center…. The book is engaging, playful, erudite, discursive and rich with detail." —The New York Times “A smart, funny, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman’s body, Eve surprises, educates, and emboldens.”—Bonnie Garmus, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Lessons in Chemistry An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writer Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? And does the female brain really exist? In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it’s an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon’s findings, including everything from the way C-sections in the industrialized world are rearranging women’s pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens have become such a successful and dominant species, from tool use to city building to the development of language. A 21st-century update of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Eve offers a true paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is and why it matters.

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497

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Random House Canada

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0345813316

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9780345813312

The Drawing Club of Improbable Dreams

How to Create a Club for Art

By: Cat Bennett

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The Drawing Club of Improbable Dreams

How to Create a Club for Art

By: Cat Bennett

The Drawing Club of Improbable Dreams shows how to create a drawing club to work with fellow artists to build skills and find our own genius. In the club we make art experiments and the bold mistakes that free us from unnecessary limitations. We also reap the benefit of witnessing how others solve problems. Inside are full instructions on how to start and run a club as well as three 8-week session plans with specific art explorations. The purpose of the explorations we make is not only to build drawing skills but also to build the qualities of curiosity, courage, and critical thinking we need for making art. We will learn how to work from the inside out to make art that is fresh, vital and authentic. The book offers two important rules that will help us be the unique artists we are meant to be. As artists we dream that we might make something fantastic and be fully who we are. We dream that art matters, even that it might change the world. Improbable dreams but, in a club, things start to happen that we didn’t imagine possible. Working together we discover strength we might not have on our own. A club can take us to places we hardly dared to dream of and can show us how improbable dreams are where our hearts are truly meant to be.

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144

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Simon and Schuster

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1844098192

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9781844098194

River Kings

A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads

By: Cat Jarman

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River Kings

A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads

By: Cat Jarman

Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India. An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic techniques to spark her investigation into the history of the Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand years old, she can determine childhood diet—and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death-date down to the range of a few years. And her research offers enlightening new visions of the roles of women and children in Viking culture. Three years ago, a Carnelian bead came into her temporary possession. River Kings sees her trace the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, discovering along the way that the Vikings’ route was far more varied than we might think—that with them came people from the Middle East, not just Scandinavia, and that the reason for this unexpected integration between the Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave trade running through the Silk Road, all the way to Britain. Told as a riveting history of the Vikings and the methods we use to understand them, this is a major reassessment of the fierce, often-mythologized voyagers of the North—and of the global medieval world as we know it.

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352

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Simon and Schuster

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1643138707

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9781643138701

Access Hawaii

By: Richard Saul Wurman,Cat Milan

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Access Hawaii

By: Richard Saul Wurman,Cat Milan

Brand-new to the eighth edition are nearly 40 lodging and dining spots on six islands; late-breaking information on new attractions like the U.S.S. Missouri Museum at Pearl Harbor; and the world's largest maze at the Dole Pineapple Plantation. Color maps. Illustrations.

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0062772775

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9780062772770

Women in Neoliberal Postfeminist Television Drama

Representing Gendered Experiences of the Second World War

By: Cat Mahoney

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Representing Gendered Experiences of the Second World War

By: Cat Mahoney

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Book's by Cat Mahoney

Women in Neoliberal Postfeminist Television Drama

Women in Neoliberal Postfeminist Television Drama

Undone

Undone

When Man Becomes Prey

When Man Becomes Prey

Happy Is the Bride

Happy Is the Bride

Eve

Eve

The Drawing Club of Improbable Dreams

The Drawing Club of Improbable Dreams

River Kings

River Kings

Access Hawaii

Access Hawaii

Women in Neoliberal Postfeminist Television Drama

Women in Neoliberal Postfeminist Television Drama

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