Margaret Mcfadden
Biographic Data
| ID | 4258993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Mcfadden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcfadden |
| SIGNATURE | MCFADDEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Yoo-Hoo, Prosperity!”
This essay argues that Eddie Cantor was so popular across so many different media in the early years of the Great Depression because his complex comic persona enabled him to address prevailing anxieties and to use the license of comedy to offer a strong class critique of the rich and powerful, to symbolically restore lost masculinity and normative gender relations, and to present a vision of a more inclusive white American identity at a time of p…
People Shouldn't Be Forgotten”
The television show Cold Case provides an ongoing social history lesson that offers a sophisticated and quite politicized analysis of the relationships between the past and the present. Furthermore, the program invites viewers to empathize with the victim and to develop an ethical commitment to social justice in the future
L” is for Looking Again
This paper focuses on an important aspect of the Showtime television series The L Word: its exploration of the representation of gender and sexuality in contemporary visual art. The program presents a sophisticated feminist perspective on the histories of female and lesbian representation, and it uses the work of particular contemporary artists, who are known for their engagement with questions of female, lesbian, and/or queer representation, to …
Shall We Dance
Hella Wuolijoki's ?Pipe Dreams,? Finland to Russia, 1917
Hella Wuolijoki (1886-1954), playwright, diplomat, entrepreneur, activist, was born Hella Murrik in Al, near Helme, Estonia. She studied folklore at the University of Helsinki and became involved in the Finnish socialist-nationalist movement, participating in the General Strike of 1905, in the aftermath of the first Russian revolution. She met and married member of the new Finnish Parliament, Sulo Wuolijoki, in 1907, gave birth to daughter Vappu,…
Warning—Do not risk federal arrest by looking glum!”
Taking on the World
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Fulbright Scholar Program in 1996 and to help set the agenda for the next half century, five former Fulbright professors, all of them women from the United States, recount the life-altering experiences they had while teaching and doing research under the program's auspices in Germany, Mexico, Chile, Romania, and Finland during the 1980s and 1990s. In separate but related essays, the five authors, all…
America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date
Journal Article “America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date”: Gender, Race, and the Cultural Work of the Jack Benny Program, 1932–1946 Get access Margaret T. McFadden Margaret T. McFadden Ph.D. candidate in American studies Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 123–134, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079699 Published: 01 June 1993
Boston Teenagers Debate the Woman Question, 1837-1838
Anna Doyle Wheeler (1785–1848)
This essay examines the life and work of early socialist thinker Anna Doyle Wheeler, who, with the Owenite theorist William Thompson, was author of The Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretentions of the Other Half, Men ... (1825). In analyzing her thought, I employ a typological model for the development of a feminist consciousness proposed by Michèle Riot-Sarcey and Eleni Varikas (1986). These authors posit three types of a…
Anna Doyle Wheeler (1785–1848)
This essay examines the life and work of early socialist thinker Anna Doyle Wheeler, who, with the Owenite theorist William Thompson, was author of The Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretentions of the Other Half, Men ... (1825). In analyzing her thought, I employ a typological model for the development of a feminist consciousness proposed by Michèle Riot-Sarcey and Eleni Varikas (1986). These authors posit three types of a…
America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date
Journal Article “America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date”: Gender, Race, and the Cultural Work of the Jack Benny Program, 1932–1946 Get access Margaret T. McFadden Margaret T. McFadden Ph.D. candidate in American studies Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 123–134, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079699 Published: 01 June 1993
Anna Doyle Wheeler (1785–1848)
This essay examines the life and work of early socialist thinker Anna Doyle Wheeler, who, with the Owenite theorist William Thompson, was author of The Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretentions of the Other Half, Men ... (1825). In analyzing her thought, I employ a typological model for the development of a feminist consciousness proposed by Michèle Riot-Sarcey and Eleni Varikas (1986). These authors posit three types of a…
Boston Teenagers Debate the Woman Question, 1837-1838
America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date
Journal Article “America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date”: Gender, Race, and the Cultural Work of the Jack Benny Program, 1932–1946 Get access Margaret T. McFadden Margaret T. McFadden Ph.D. candidate in American studies Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 123–134, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079699 Published: 01 June 1993
Taking on the World
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Fulbright Scholar Program in 1996 and to help set the agenda for the next half century, five former Fulbright professors, all of them women from the United States, recount the life-altering experiences they had while teaching and doing research under the program's auspices in Germany, Mexico, Chile, Romania, and Finland during the 1980s and 1990s. In separate but related essays, the five authors, all…
Hella Wuolijoki's ?Pipe Dreams,? Finland to Russia, 1917
Hella Wuolijoki (1886-1954), playwright, diplomat, entrepreneur, activist, was born Hella Murrik in Al, near Helme, Estonia. She studied folklore at the University of Helsinki and became involved in the Finnish socialist-nationalist movement, participating in the General Strike of 1905, in the aftermath of the first Russian revolution. She met and married member of the new Finnish Parliament, Sulo Wuolijoki, in 1907, gave birth to daughter Vappu,…
Warning—Do not risk federal arrest by looking glum!”
Shall We Dance
L” is for Looking Again
This paper focuses on an important aspect of the Showtime television series The L Word: its exploration of the representation of gender and sexuality in contemporary visual art. The program presents a sophisticated feminist perspective on the histories of female and lesbian representation, and it uses the work of particular contemporary artists, who are known for their engagement with questions of female, lesbian, and/or queer representation, to …
People Shouldn't Be Forgotten”
The television show Cold Case provides an ongoing social history lesson that offers a sophisticated and quite politicized analysis of the relationships between the past and the present. Furthermore, the program invites viewers to empathize with the victim and to develop an ethical commitment to social justice in the future
“Yoo-Hoo, Prosperity!”
This essay argues that Eddie Cantor was so popular across so many different media in the early years of the Great Depression because his complex comic persona enabled him to address prevailing anxieties and to use the license of comedy to offer a strong class critique of the rich and powerful, to symbolically restore lost masculinity and normative gender relations, and to present a vision of a more inclusive white American identity at a time of p…
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