Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Abstract The oppression of Afghan women by fundamentalist groups was barely addressed by the corporate media until it proved rhetorically useful for US elites to argue for military intervention as a means to liberate the women of that country. This article critically interrogates this claim, and analyzes media coverage of Afghan women before and after the US invasion on 7 October 2001.

Scholarly accounts of gender, race, and television in the 1950s have mainly focused on the ideological content of programming that ultimately made it onto the air. This research has played an important role in reckoning with the political and cultural legacies of 1950s television.

Having a million does not in itself make one able to live like a millionaire; and parvenus generally take a long time to learn that what they see as culpable prodigality is, in their new condition, expenditure of basic necessity.(Pierre Bourdieu 1984 2. bourdieu pierre (1984) Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste trans. Richard Nice, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

Abstract This article considers Policing the Crisis' continued significance some three decades into the crime wave that began in the United States. Specifically, this article uses Policing the Crisis as a springboard for examining the moral panic and crisis as frameworks for understanding media coverage of crime and social responses to that coverage.

By late 1991, what Rosalind Petchesky had once described as “the Rightward Drift in the Courts” had become a right-wing tsunami. 2 Neoconservative Clarence Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court, a decision was handed down in Rust u. Sullivan (the “gag rule”) forbidding doctors in family planning clinics accepting federal funds to even mention abortion to pregnant women (even if that pregnancy threatened a woman's life).

When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?(Meyer, 2008, p. 2)

I think that part of this is an emotional response and I think whoever was President at the time, there might have been an emotional response because there was—you know, a lot of these pictures were of poor black people and that's hard to see. I do think that a lot of things were said that went unchallenged that should have been challenged.

Nike Corporation irrefutably has created wealth for its owners and shareholders, but its rhetoric of social responsibility—its self‐presentation of the corporation as a now global citizen—constitutes a more dubious claim. Nike is not alone in engaging in such marketing practices, but the corporation has long been in the vanguard of innovations in both production and marketing and therefore offers an instructive case study of how multinational corporations produce and manage their public images.

Dead creek, for example, a creekbed that received discharges from the chemical and metal plants in previous years, is now a place where kids from East St. Louis ride their bikes. The creek, which smokes by day and glows on moonless nights, has gained some notoriety in recent years for instances of spontaneous combustion.

At universities around the United States, the President's Box refers to a room, or suite of rooms, at stadiums used for VIP purposes. The President's Box serves as a venue where development officers and university administrators entertain private and corporate donors and lay the groundwork for fundraising priorities and activities. For donors, the President's Box offers the best seats for athletic events and just as frequently the best food and drink.