The Fight for Reproductive Rights in Road Narratives and Comedies
Abortion road narratives and comedies variously expose and destabilize the anti-abortion regime’s misogynist, classist, heterosexist, and racist underpinnings.
Kristina Deffenbacher
Kristina Deffenbacher is a professor of English at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She teaches and writes on a range of subjects, including gender and sexuality in pop culture. Recent publications in this field include an article on I Love Dick in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video and an essay on "Trans-Domesticity" in Media/Culture Journal.
Why Racially Diverse British Period Dramas Matter
To this day, the history of people of color in England is often erased from dominant cultural narratives. Fictions, however, can collectively shift cultural narratives; we need stories to counter stories.
Annie, Get Your Gun
Women gunslingers engender justice in new fantasy Westerns from Charlaine Harris and Lyndsay Ely.
‘Good Girls Revolt’, “Nasty Women”, and the Politics of Recognition
Amazon's Good Girls Revolt may be set in the past, but it resonates loudly with the electoral present.
Lesser Shades of Jane
Why the girls of Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey can’t stand up to 19th century romantic heroines…