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  • My Wedding Dress

    True-Life Tales of Lace, Laughter, Tears and Tulle

    Edited by Susan Whelehan, Anne Laurel Carter ...
    In the tradition of beloved anthologies of women's essay writing, this collection offers twenty-six true stories from well-known writers and fresh new literary voices writing about a touchstone garment in a women’s lives--the wedding dress. These are intimate stories about relationships; not just those between men and women, but between women and their mothers, friends and children. And, of course ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Adaptations

    From Text to Screen, Screen to Text

    Edited by Deborah Cartmell, Imelda Whelehan ...
    Adaptations considers the theoretical and practical difficulties surrounding the translation of a text into film, and the reverse process; the novelisation of films. Through three sets of case studies, the contributors examine the key debates surrounding adaptations: whether screen versions of literary classics can be faithful to the text; if something as capsulated as Jane Austens irony can even ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Christmas Eve in a Gum Tree and other lost Australian Christmas stories

    Edited by Katherine Bode ...
    Christmas in fiction – a time when families reunite and love blossoms, when evil is overcome and tragedy is averted. Cruelty and revenge are offset by heroism and forgiveness, and constancy in love is rewarded. But in Australia Christmas stories are also marked by fire and flood, cyclone and drought, and the perils of isolation. Cattle drovers find themselves stuck in a gumtree, a pitiless ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Reading Lena Dunham’s Girls

    Feminism, postfeminism, authenticity and gendered performance in contemporary television

    Edited by Meredith Nash, Imelda Whelehan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In this book, leading and emerging scholars consider the mixed critical responses to Lena Dunham’s TV series Girls and reflect on its significance to contemporary debates about postfeminist popular cultures in a post-recession context. The series features both familiar and innovative depictions of young women and men in contemporary America that invite comparisons with Sex and the City. It aims ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism

    Harleys and Hormones

    Edited by I. Whelehan, J. Gwynne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the realities of an ageing Western population? This volume analyses this field of representation to argue that, while celebrations of ageing as an inspirational journey are increasing, most depictions still focus on decline and deterioration. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen

    Edited by Deborah Cartmell, Imelda Whelehan ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel ... Read more

    Was $37.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • Teaching Adaptations

    Edited by D. Cartmell, I. Whelehan ...
    Series series Teaching the New English
    Teaching Adaptations addresses the challenges and appeal of teaching popular fiction and culture, video games and new media content, which serve to enrich the curriculum, as well as exploit the changing methods by which English students read and consume literary and screen texts. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Key Concepts in Gender Studies

    by Jane Pilcher, Imelda Whelehan ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    The new edition of Key Concepts in Gender Studies is a lively and engaging introduction to this dynamic field.Thoroughly revised throughout, the second edition benefits from the addition of nine new concepts including Gender Social Movements, Intersectionality and Mainstreaming.Each of the entries:begins with a concise definitionoutlines the history of each term and the debates surrounding ... Read more

    $71.19 CAD

  • Feminism and Popular Culture

    Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique

    by Rebecca Munford, Melanie Waters ...
    When the term “postfeminism” entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines about the “death of feminism.” Those reports of feminism’s death may have been greatly exaggerated, and yet contemporary popular culture often conjures up a world in which feminism had never even been born, a fictional universe filled with suburban Stepford wives, maniacal career ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Future Millionaires' Guidebook

    by Bankrate, Claes Bell, Kay Bell, Christina Couch, Kim Fulscher, Janna Herron, Jay MacDonald, Sheyna Steiner, Barbara Mlotek Whelehan ...
    Most people believe the only way to acquire a million dollars is by purchasing a winning lottery ticket. The authors of Future Millionaires’ Guidebook contend that making smart and deliberate financial decisions can help anyone achieve this goal. Written by the reporters and editors of the award-winning personal finance website Bankrate.com, Future Millionaires’ Guidebook is designed to help ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Feminisms and Ruralities

    by Jenny Barker Devine, Lia Bryant, Anne Byrne, Nata Duvvury, Sara Egge, Gro Follo, Marit S. Haugen, Julie C. Keller, Belinda Leach, Mona Livholts, Susan Machum, Áine Macken-Walsh, Nicole Power, Jennifer Rogers-Brown, Sally Shortall, Maarit Sireni, Tanya Watson, Kate Cairns, Professor Imelda Whelehan ...
    Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or at least their urban positionality once in the academy. It may equivalently be that feminists have ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Human Sexuality

    Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives

    by Anne Bolin, Patricia Whelehan, Muriel Vernon, Katja Antoine ...
    This groundbreaking second edition of Human Sexuality continues its broad and interdisciplinary goal of providing readers with a comprehensive overview on sexuality as a core part of our individual identities and social lives.Edited by anthropological experts on the subject, this unique textbook integrates evolutionary and cultural aspects to provide a fully interdisciplinary approach to human ... Read more

    $152.99 CAD