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Self-reference in the Media

This book investigates how the media have become self-referential or self-reflexive instead of mediating between the real or fictional worlds about which their messages pretend to be and between the audience that they wish to inform, counsel, or entertain. The concept of self-reference is viewed very broadly. Self-reflexivity, metatexts, metapictures, metamusic, metacommunication, as well as intertextual, and intermedial references are all conceived of as forms of self-reference, although to different degrees and levels. The contributions focus on the semiotic foundations of reference and self-reference, discuss the transdisciplinary context of self-reference in postmodern culture, and examine original studies from the worlds of print advertising, photography, film, television, computer games, media art, web art, and music. A wide range of different media products and topics are discussed including self-promotion on TV, the TV show Big Brother, the TV format "historytainment," media nostalgia, the documentation of documentation in documentary films, Marilyn Monroe in photographs, humor and paradox in animated films, metacommunication in computer games, metapictures, metafiction, metamusic, body art, and net art.

In: Suzanne M. Lodato, Suzanne Aspden and Walter Bernhart (eds.), Word and
Music Studies: Essays in Honor of Steven Paul Scher and on Cultural Identity
and the Musical Stage, 13-34. (Word & Music Studies 4.) Amsterdam: Rodopi.

The King's Midwife

A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray

This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to travel throughout France teaching the art of childbirth to illiterate peasant women. For the next thirty years, this royal emissary taught in nearly forty cities and reached an estimated ten thousand students. She wrote a textbook and invented a life-sized obstetrical mannequin for her demonstrations. She contributed significantly to France's demographic upswing after 1760. Who was the woman, both the private self and the pseudonymous public celebrity? Nina Rattner Gelbart reconstructs Madame du Coudray's astonishing mission through extensive research in the hundreds of letters by, to, and about her in provincial archives throughout France. Tracing her subject's footsteps around the country, Gelbart chronicles du Coudray's battles with finance ministers, village matrons, local administrators, and recalcitrant physicians, her rises in power and falls from grace, and her death at the height of the Reign of Terror. At a deeper level, Gelbart recaptures du Coudray's interior journey as well, by questioning and dismantling the neat paper trail that the great midwife so carefully left behind. Delightfully written, this tale of a fascinating life at the end of the French Old Regime sheds new light on the histories of medicine, gender, society, politics, and culture.

See Necker, Suzanne Cures. See Priests Cureyas, Jeanne, 79, 86-87 Cypierre,
M. de, 120 Daly, Mary, 12, 281 David, Jacques-Louis, 254, 317ml Daviel (eye
specialist), 51 Davis, Natalie, 14 Dax, 246 Debure (publisher), 201, 205, 208-9,
210 ...

Dumped

Women Unfriending Women

There are 161 million women in America today, and our friendships are still as primary and universal as back when Ruth and Naomi, Elizabeth and Susan B., Lucy and Ethel, and Thelma and Louise made history. And that’s what makes being dumped by a woman friend so excruciating: you expect romantic relationships to break up eventually—but you don’t expect it from your friendships. And when it happens, you feel as though there should be an Adele song for you—but there isn’t. Dumped: Women Unfriending Women fills that void, exploring the universal experience of being discarded by those from whom you expected more. The essays in Dumped aren’t stories of friendship dying a mutually agreed upon death, or of falling out of touch and reconnecting years later to find you haven’t missed a beat. These are stories by established and emerging authors who, like you, may have found themselves erased, without context. These, like your own, are stories that stay with you, maybe for a lifetime.

... Marjorie Barkin Searle, Fran Glover, Mary Sojurner, my fabulous Facebook
community (you know who you are), Annette Welch, Chuck and Suzanne
Montante, Barbara Hurd, Amy Ferris, Suzanne Strempek Shea, River Jordan, Al
and Jackie ...

The Hidden Patients

North African Women in French Colonial Psychiatry

“The Hidden Patients” looks at questions of gender in psychiatric publications on the colonial Maghreb, which described “normal” and “abnormal” forms of behaviour among the colonised and compared these findings to descriptions of Europeans who had been diagnosed with psychiatric “abnormalities”. Many psychiatric experts claimed that Muslim women rarely went “mad” and that they only accounted for a negligible percentage of the patients cared for by colonial psychiatrists. Consequently, relatively little space was dedicated to female Muslim patients in the theoretical source material, even though case studies and statistics clearly showed that it was mainly an imaginary absence and that it contradicted the everyday experiences of the psychiatrists.

All of them had more case studies on Muslim men than Muslim women, apart
from Suzanne Taïeb's collection, one of only a handful of female colonial
psychiatrists working in North Africa.125 As a woman, she looked after Muslim
women and ...

How to Prepare for the Virginia SOL

EOC English : Writing & Reading/Literature and Research

This new test prep manual gives high school students in the state of Virginia in-depth preparation for the required exam in English Language Arts. As such it complements Barron’s recently published SOL manual preparing students for the SOL Algebra test. This English Language Arts exam is made up of two tests that students take over the course of several days. One is in Writing; the other is called Reading, Research, and Literature. This manual provides two complete practice tests with answers for each of these tests.

Suzanne Pebworth Swean 8. Which of the following concepts is not described in
the story? A Characteristics of the members of the writer's extended family B
Descriptions of the house and its contents C Humorous memories D Biographical
 ...

This Is Not a Fairy Tale

When a mostly normal 40 year old divorcée and mother of two starts seeing talking unicorns and angels everywhere, the question begs to be asked: is she crazy or must she follow the signs?This is a fairytale with a good dose of reality, a modicum of commonsense, and delightful tale of what can happen when you start living the life you were meant to live.

Before I had taken a step out of the kitchen, I heard the helicopter take off, and
then Suzanne, the lovely girl who had helped me in the kitchen the first night,
came bustling through the door. She smiled at me and gave me a piece of paper.

Women Playwrights

The Best Plays of ...

D. L. Lepidus, Suzanne Bradbeer, Cusi Cram, Julie Jensen, Nina Kossman,
Theresa Rebeck, Elaine Romero, S.M. Shepard-Massat. CAST: PHOEBE
HARRIS Christina Lynne Smith JANE HARRIS Denise Bessette CRYSTAL
DAWN ...

Patterns in Circulation

Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa

In this book, Nina Sylvanus tells a captivating story of global trade and cross-cultural aesthetics in West Africa, showing how a group of Togolese women—through the making and circulation of wax cloth—became influential agents of taste and history. Traveling deep into the shifting terrain of textile manufacture, design, and trade, she follows wax cloth around the world and through time to unveil its critical role in colonial and postcolonial patterns of exchange and value production. Sylvanus brings wax cloth’s unique and complex history to light: born as a nineteenth-century Dutch colonial effort to copy Javanese batik cloth for Southeast Asian markets, it was reborn as a status marker that has dominated the visual economy of West African markets. Although most wax cloth is produced in China today, it continues to be central to the expression of West African women’s identity and power. As Sylvanus shows, wax cloth expresses more than this global motion of goods, capital, aesthetics, and labor—it is a form of archive where intimate and national memories are stored, always ready to be reanimated by human touch. By uncovering this crucial aspect of West African material culture, she enriches our understanding of global trade, the mutual negotiations that drive it, and the how these create different forms of agency and subjectivity.

Foster, Robert. 2006. “Tracking Globalization: Commodities and Value in Motion.”
In Handbook for Material Culture, edited by Christopher Tilley, Webb Keane,
Susanne Küchler, Michael Rowlands, and Patricia Spyer, 285–302. London:
Sage.

Ophelia's Mom

Loving and Letting Go of Your Adolescent Daughter

MOTHERS TALK BACK! In 1999 Ophelia Speaks, Sara Shandler’s collection of writings by and about adolescent girls, became a bestseller. Two years later, Nina Shandler, Ed.D., psychologist by profession and Sara’s mother, invited mothers of adolescent girls from all over the country to talk back, giving them the chance, perhaps for the first time, to speak out about feelings too often considered taboo. Culled from written submissions and interviews with hundreds of women from all walks of life and from every part of the country, the concerns voiced in Ophelia’s Mom reflect the universal experience of mothers facing one set of changes while their daughters are facing another. With humor, insight, rage, sadness, jealousy, pride, joy, and, ultimately, optimism, these mothers talk candidly about rejection and separation, feminism versus Girl Power, love and sex, friends, school, drugs and alcohol, divorce, menstruation and menopause, the mother-daughter bond, and much more. As these mothers reveal how this life passage has reshaped them as well as their children, you’ll realize that you’re not crazy, and you’re certainly not alone in your frustration, confusion, and exhilaration over raising an adolescent daughter. From the Trade Paperback edition.

With that vignette, Suzanne's attention turned to Kyle's junior high and high
school days. She paused and bowed her head, as though searching for words
beneath the waxed sheen of my oak table. She gathered her thoughts and
looked up.

Voice as a Technology of Selfhood: Towards an Analysis of Racialized Timbre and Vocal Performance

In this dissertation I examine the production of race through sound in general and vocal timbre in particular, and investigate how the construction of the black voice---against the backdrop of the normative white---in opera, spirituals, and popular music reflects deeply-held American ideas about race. Which processes have contributed to the racialized perception and reification of timbre? What are some of the social and political processes embedded in the cultural capital possessed by certain vocal timbres in specific cultural contexts and various historical periods?

Therefore, as we will see in the work of Suzanne Cusick, these theories can be
fruitful to explore when investigating music performance. Performing Vocal
Timbre and Identity: Suzanne Cusick Suzanne Cusick is one of the few who has ...