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Womens Studies in Communication
Volume 34(1), 2011
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CONTENTS
 
Hayden, Sara Constituting savvy aunties: From childless women to child-focused consumers. 1-19
 
  In August 2008, self-identified "auntrepreneur" Melanie Notkin launched SavvyAuntie.com, - the first online community for aunts 
 
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family
computer
 
 
McCarver, Virginia The rhetoric of choice and 21st-century feminism: Online conversations about work, family, and Sarah Palin. 20-41
 
  Critical exploration of online discourse concerning Sarah Palin's vice presidential candidacy and role as mother reveals the rhetoric of choice is predominant when it comes to how women approach and understand work and family as well as interact with feminism 
 
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family
persuasion
gender
politics and government
 
 
Harris, Kate Lockwood The next problem with no name: The politics and pragmatics of the word rape. 42-63
 
  In this study I asked women how the word rape fit and did not fit their own experiences of forced or unwanted sex with acquaintances 
 
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gender
sexuality
interpersonal
conflict
 
 
D'Enbeau, Suzy Transnational feminist advocacy online: Identity (re)creation through diversity, transparency, and co-construction. 64-83
 
  Transnational feminist networks (TFNs) are organizational forms that transcend geographical, political, and cultural boundaries to advance a gender justice and development agenda 
 
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international development
gender
computer
social structure
organizational
politics and government
interpersonal
 
 
Kimble, James J. The home as battlefront: Femininity, gendered spheres, and the 1943 Women in National Service campaign. 84-103
 
  This essay investigates the dynamics of the Women in National Service (WINS) campaign, an attempt by the magazine Ladies' Home Journal to militarize middle-class housewives on the U.S 
 
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gender
politics and government
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social structure
personality and psychology
military and armed conflict