Postfeminist Mosaics: Jamie Pachino's Theodora

Feminist to Postfeminist

have been experiencing a veritable boom in recent years. Since the turn of the millennium, the lives of Frida Kahlo, Sylvia Plath, Murasaki Shikibu, Artemisia Gentileschi, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Austen, Gwen John – to name just a few – have been made subjects of imaginative re-tellings, some of them in multiple versions. These biofictions are the product of both biographical scholarship and autho...

Theodora (Theo) Colborn: 1927–2014

Theodora Colborn, research scientist and environmental activist, died 14 December 2014 at the age of 87. As the scientist who coined the term “endocrine disruptor,” Theo—as we had the privilege to call her—played a watershed role in the field of environmental health science, particularly in raising public awareness of the effects of chemical contaminants on human health and the environment. It ...

INTERSECTING RATIONAL BEATTY SEQUENCES Jamie

A rational Beatty sequence has the form {�pi/q + b� : i ∈ Z} where p > q > 0 and gcd(p, q) = 1. We call p/q the modulus of the sequence and b the offset. Morikawa gave a condition on the moduli of two Beatty sequences such that they would be disjoint for a suitable choice of offsets. Holzman and Fraenkel showed that the sequence formed by the intersection of two Beatty sequences with moduli p1/...

Disordered eating and choice in postfeminist spaces

This paper explores the rise of disordered eating in a postfeminist world. Based on findings from an Australian Research Council grant that investigated why women with disordered eating were reluctant to engage with treatment services, we demonstrate how women embody postfeminist positions of choice and responsibility in their eating and body practices. Through applying Rosalind Gill’s (2007) c...

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