The body is of central concern to midwifery yet, as a profession, we have largely failed to
grapple with the corpus of feminist and other literature that deals with the body. This article …

Provocative and intellectually challenging, Gender and Migration critically analyses how
gender has been taken up in studies of migration and its theories, practices and effects …

This study investigates sexual health teaching and its effects. The focus is on how the health
clinic works as a pedagogical environment where lessons are offered by clinicians to …

Abstract Studying Asian North American poetry since the 1960s, this dissertation defines"
transcultural intertextuality" as a border-crossing practice that engages with multiple …

The end of the dictatorship in Spain, and the ratification in 1978 of a Constitution that
ensured the legal equality of women, paved the way to begin modifying the traditional view …

Abstract In The Warrior Women of Transnational Cinema, I consider the significance of
transnational Asian action women in the post-1997 Hong Kong cinema; more specifically, I …

Tese (Doutorado em Literatura Comparada)–Instituto de Letras, Universidade do Estado do
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2010. A tese se insere nos estudos sobre o gótico literário …

Two questions form the basis of this qualitative study: Do Cartesian notions of mind/body
dualism influence the meanings therapists attribute to the body? How do therapists' ideas …

The grotesque theme of the mask has been traditionally associated with the problem of
identity. While the mask of the carnivalesque tradition implies the possibility of positive …

Coming of age intellectually in the explosive queer worlds of the 1990s San Francisco Bay
area, I found my early academic training and experiences astonishing. New vocabularies …