Screen Women: Body Narratives in Popular American Film | Women's and Gender Studies | MIT OpenCourseWare

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Women's and Gender Studies

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Spring 2014

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Graduate

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Addressing Transphobia With Boys Don’t Cry

Angels in America: AIDS as an Epidemic of Signification

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Boys Don’t Cry Film Analysis

Smells Like Teen Vomit: Abjection, Unruliness, and Genre in Black Swan and Jennifer's Body

The Phenomenal Woman: How Beauty Shop Redefines Postfeminism to Makes Space for Black Bodies

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Women's and Gender Studies

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Spring 2014

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Graduate

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