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Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism explores inter-disciplinary connections across Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Psychology, and feminist literary criticism to develop a theoretical framework for spatial criticism. Using the spatial gynocritics framework developed in the book, it analyzes selected texts from five different genres–short-story, novel, film, cartoons, and OTT series, created by women. The creators discussed in the book constitute a transnational collectivity of women that shares common concerns about gender, environment, technology, and social hierarchies. They comprise a geographically and linguistically diverse group from India, Uruguay, Spain, Argentina, and the U...
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"Hero stories are deeply rooted in Western Culture. From religion and myth to blockbuster films and YA literature, the story is everywhere, and it shapes how we, the ones who hear and see it, understand the world around us. For too long, hero stories, which could also be called dominant discourse, have undertaken this social and cultural work through the archetypal hero: a white, often 'god'-touched, young man who exists in opposition and superiority to that which he is not, including adolescent girls. This paradigm works by imposing radical alterity on that which is not-hero to ensure his heroicness. Crucially, while this exclusion affects all girls, it does not do so evenly. If the girl is...
This is the report of a task force formed to map out a strategy for achieving the federal government goal of ensuring that broadband services are available to businesses & residents in every Canadian community by 2004. In this report, broadband is defined as a high-capacity two-way link between an end user & access network suppliers capable of supporting full-motion, interactive video applications. The first part reviews the benefits of broadband communication; the physical, economic, and social distance that separate communities (such as urban versus rural, Aboriginal versus non-Aboriginal) and the possibility of using broadband communications to help bridge that distance; and the state of ...
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