The fe-male spaces of modernism: a Western Canadian perspective

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Women played increasingly prominent roles in house design between 1946 and 1965, as demonstrated by development of the North Shore area of Vancouver, British Columbia. However, this apparently modernist project masked continuing conservative, male-dominated constructions of the feminine role in domestic design.

Canada, Social aspects, Women, History, Illustration, Critical Essay, Vancouver, British Columbia, Modernism

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Making generations and bearing witness: violence and orality in Gayl Jones's Corregidora

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The author analyzes the non-reproductive sexual politics within African-American novelist Gayl Jones' novel 'Corregidora.' Topics include the novel's correlation between sexual reproduction, male heterosexual violence against women, and slavery.

Criticism and interpretation, Literature, Sexism, Jones, Gayl, Sexism and literature, Corregidora (Book)

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