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The break
Stella, a young Metis mother, lives with her family by the Break, an isolated strip of land on the edge of their small Canadian town. Glancing out of her window one winter's evening Stella spots someone in trouble; horrified, she calls the police. But when they arrive, no one is there, scuff marks in the compacted snow the only sign anything may have happened.What follows is a heartbreaking and powerful tale of a community in crisis as the people connected to the victim, a young girl on the edge of a precipice, begin to lay bare their stories leading up to that fateful night. From Lou, a social worker grappling with the end of a relationship, to Cheryl, an artist mourning the premature death of her sister. And from Phoenix, a homeless teenager released from a youth detention centre with no one to turn to, to Officer Scott, a Metis policeman caught between two worlds. Through the prism of one extended, intergenerational family, Vermette's urgent story shines a light on the power, violence and love shared between women of all cultures, creeds and ages.
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Vigilante Feminism: Revising Trauma, Abduction, and Assault in American Fairy-Tale Revisions
I read “vigilante feminism” in three recent American fairy-tale revisions: the films Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) and the young adult novel Sisters Red (2010). Vigilante feminism, as I use the term, applies specifically to the performance of vigilantism by girls and women who have undertaken their own protection, and the protection of others, against violence (such as sexual assault, abduction, abuse, and trauma), because they have been otherwise failed in that manner. Vigilante feminist characters are represented in contemporary American fairy-tale revisions across television, film, literature, and comics. It is, in fact, the ubiquity of the character type across genres that makes it especially relevant to feminism and popular culture.
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The Nature of Women's Rape Fantasies: An Analysis of Prevalence, Frequency, and Contents
This study evaluated the rape fantasies of female undergraduates (N = 355) using a fantasy checklist that reflected the legal definition of rape and a sexual fantasy log that included systematic prompts and self-ratings. Results indicated that 62% of women have had a rape fantasy, which is somewhat higher than previous estimates. For women who have had rape fantasies, the median frequency of these fantasies was about 4 times per year, with 14% of participants reporting that they had rape fantasies at least once a week. In contrast to previous research, which suggested that rape fantasies were either entirely aversive or entirely erotic, rape fantasies were found to exist on an erotic-aversive continuum, with 9% completely aversive, 45% completely erotic, and 46% both erotic and aversive.
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RELAÇÕES DE PODER EM NARRATIVAS VIRTUAIS PRODUZIDAS POR JOVENS
Temas relativos ao ciberespaço vêm ganhando mais relevância na contemporaneidade. A juventude aparece como protagonista desse processo impulsionando e produzindo novas manifestações culturais neste universo. Dentre elas, destacam-se as fanfictions, narrativas construídas virtualmente por e para fãs. O estudo teve como objetivo identificar, sob a perspectiva das Epistemologias do Sul, como o colonialismo, o patriarcado e o capitalismo se manifestam nas fanfictions. Realizou-se uma pesquisa documental qualitativa, com leitura e análise de três narrativas publicadas em plataformas online. Notou-se a presença das três estruturas de poder: destaque ao patriarcado, expresso em cenas de objetificação e violências contra a mulher; o colonialismo, visualizado pela presença de apenas personagens brancos; e o capitalismo, através do protagonismo do estilo de vida das classes sociais dominantes. Os resultados apontam que as produções juvenis têm sido espaços de reprodução de relações de poder dominantes no cenário atual.
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Social Dominance and Forceful Submission Fantasies: Feminine Pathology or Power?
This study addresses forceful submission fantasies in men and women. Although many approaches implicitly or explicitly cast women's force fantasies in a pathological light, this study seeks to explore the associations of such fantasy to female power. By adopting an evolutionary meta-theoretical perspective (and a resource control theory perspective), it was hypothesized that highly agentic, dominant women prefer forceful submission fantasies (more than subordinate women) as a means to connect them to agentic, dominant men. In addition, it is suggested that dominant women would ascribe a meaning to the object of the fantasy different from that assigned by subordinate women (i.e., \"warrior lover\" vs. \"white knight\"). Two studies were conducted with nearly 900 college students (men and women) from a large Midwestern university. Hypotheses were largely supported. Analysis of meaning supports theoretical perspectives proposing that forceful submission reflects desires for sexual power on behalf of the fantasist. Implications for evolutionary approaches to human mate preferences are discussed.
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CHICAS MUERTAS: TRES RELATOS 'ATÍPICOS E INFRUCTUOSOS' PARA ARMAR
In Chicas muertas (2014) -published prior to the #NiünaMenos movement Selva Almada (1973) tells the story of the unpunished femicides of three young women from various locations in Argentina during the 1980s, a time coinciding with the restoration of democracy after the last military dictatorship. Almada uses non-fiction to present the sociopolitical and media context in which Andrea Danne (Entre Ríos), María Luisa Quevedo (Chaco) and Sara Mundín (Córdoba) were murdered. Using Cristina Rivera Garza's framework of necrowriting and a \"poetics of disappropiation\" to narrate these cases, Almada, as if opening a file, exposes the growing number of gender-motivated crimes that have occurred up until our time.
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