Focuses upon the vibrant world of women's ice hockey in western Canada during the First World War & the 1920s. This title follows the fortunes of the Vancouver women as they encountered teams from Victoria & New Westminster & the powerful squads from Calgary & Edmonton
- teams that deserve to be legendary, but are largely forgotten.
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A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist & feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how & why certain formulations of feminism & femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream cinema & television, offering new insights into postfeminist media phenomena. ...

Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political, Sharon Lin Tay argues that contemporary women's cinema must exceed the personal to be politically relevant & ethically cogent. ...

Pedro Almodovar directs this fast-moving, surreal farce of obsessive love. When Ivan jilts his long-time lover Pepa, she considers suicide, laces her gazpacho soup with barbituates & lets her flat. However, the tenants turn out to be Ivan's son & his girlfriend. Revelations pile up, weirder & weirder characters appear & meanwhile Ivan is flying off to Stockholm with yet another young girl. Carmen Maura & Antonio Banderas star. ...

The author's previous books, My Secret Garden & " Forbidden Flowers", revealed that women possess erotic imaginations at least as inventive & powerful as those of men. This book asks questions, such as: what are women's sexual fantasies? How have they responded to the changes brought about by feminism? ...

Master of the sensual nude, Stefan Mayas latest work captures the intimate splendor of the feminine form. This original collection combines duotone & color images in an imaginative assortment. The contrast between photographic modes helps the reader fully appreciate form, texture, as well as interplays of light & shadow. ...