Melissa Oliver-Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1658378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Oliver-Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliver-Powell |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVER-POWELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry, University College London, London, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘A very unusual self’
This article re-examines the symbolic and aesthetic uses of the home in the British New Wave. Key works of scholarship on the cycle have tended to position the home as a site of stable return for the young protagonists, and as a privileged expression of the reproductive heterosexual maturities that the films are seen ultimately to endorse. This article argues that, far from such reliable bastions of normativity, these domestic spaces are depicted…
Beyond the Spectacle of Suffering
14 Feminist Studies 46, no. 1. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Melissa Oliver-Powell Beyond the Spectacle of Suffering: Agnès Varda’s L’Unechante,l’autrepas and Rewriting the Subject of Abortion in France In the spring of 1971, three years after the revolutionary fervor of May 1968 in France, 343 women put their names to a courageous manifesto announcing that they were criminals of a particularly gendered nature. The authors of Manifeste des 343…
The daughters of Pepsi and the pill
This article examines the representation of abortion narratives in the work of a selection of directors associated with French New Wave cinema. In 1960s France, reproductive rights were high on the agenda for many women’s rights movements and feminist activists. Rhetorical strategies of advocates for abortion law reform often involved underpinning the state of danger and disempowerment that criminalisation of abortion led to for multitudes of wom…
Beyond the Spectacle of Suffering
14 Feminist Studies 46, no. 1. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Melissa Oliver-Powell Beyond the Spectacle of Suffering: Agnès Varda’s L’Unechante,l’autrepas and Rewriting the Subject of Abortion in France In the spring of 1971, three years after the revolutionary fervor of May 1968 in France, 343 women put their names to a courageous manifesto announcing that they were criminals of a particularly gendered nature. The authors of Manifeste des 343…
The daughters of Pepsi and the pill
This article examines the representation of abortion narratives in the work of a selection of directors associated with French New Wave cinema. In 1960s France, reproductive rights were high on the agenda for many women’s rights movements and feminist activists. Rhetorical strategies of advocates for abortion law reform often involved underpinning the state of danger and disempowerment that criminalisation of abortion led to for multitudes of wom…
The daughters of Pepsi and the pill
This article examines the representation of abortion narratives in the work of a selection of directors associated with French New Wave cinema. In 1960s France, reproductive rights were high on the agenda for many women’s rights movements and feminist activists. Rhetorical strategies of advocates for abortion law reform often involved underpinning the state of danger and disempowerment that criminalisation of abortion led to for multitudes of wom…
Beyond the Spectacle of Suffering
14 Feminist Studies 46, no. 1. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Melissa Oliver-Powell Beyond the Spectacle of Suffering: Agnès Varda’s L’Unechante,l’autrepas and Rewriting the Subject of Abortion in France In the spring of 1971, three years after the revolutionary fervor of May 1968 in France, 343 women put their names to a courageous manifesto announcing that they were criminals of a particularly gendered nature. The authors of Manifeste des 343…
‘A very unusual self’
This article re-examines the symbolic and aesthetic uses of the home in the British New Wave. Key works of scholarship on the cycle have tended to position the home as a site of stable return for the young protagonists, and as a privileged expression of the reproductive heterosexual maturities that the films are seen ultimately to endorse. This article argues that, far from such reliable bastions of normativity, these domestic spaces are depicted…
Art (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)