Category: Semiotics

White slavery + beauty prestige

Barker, H. (2023). Slavery in the Black Sea region. In D.A. Pargas, and J. Schiel (eds.), The Palgrave handbook of global slavery throughout history. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Open Access.

Fredrickson, B. L., & Roberts, T. A. (1997). Objectification theory: Toward understanding women’s lived experiences and mental health risks. Psychology of women quarterly.

Moxey, K. P. (1991). Semiotics and the social history of art. New Literary History, 985-999.

Painter, N. I. (2010). The history of White people. WW Norton & Company.

The philosophy of Aesthetics…

Berleant, A. (2015). Aesthetic sensibility. Ambiance: International journal of sensory environment, architecture and urban space.

Eco, U. (2007). On ugliness.

Leddy, T. (2012). The extraordinary in the ordinary: The aesthetics of everyday life. Broadview Press.

Light, A., & Smith, J. (Eds.). (2005). The aesthetics of everyday life. Columbia University Press.

Mandoki, K. (2007). Everyday aesthetics: Prosaics, the play of culture and social identities. Aldershot and Burlington.

Mandoki, K. (2015). The indispensable excess of the aesthetic: Evolution of sensibility in nature. Lexington Books.

Shusterman, R. (2012). Thinking through the body: Essays in somaesthetics. Cambridge University Press.

Our body is aesthetic & functional…

Don’t Shock Me: Madalyn’s law USA/NJ petition.

Lauren Wasser – Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning). Diary of a CEO: Steven Bartlett (youtube).

Toxic shock syndrome – National Health Service (NHS).

Probiotic combo stops bacteria that cause toxic shock syndrome. Science Daily.

Schlievert, P. M., Gaitán, A. V., Kilgore, S. H., Roe, A. L., Maukonen, J., Lehtoranta, L., … & Marsman, D. S. (2023). Inhibition of Toxic Shock Syndrome-Associated Staphylococcus aureus by Probiotic Lactobacilli. Microbiology Spectrum, e01735-23.

Comics/cartoons = form…

Comics Research Hub: London College of Communication/University of the Arts London. http://comicsresearch.arts.ac.uk/

Davies, P. F. (2019). Comics as communication: A functional approach. Springer Nature.

Guzman, J., & Moore, B. (2023). Black newspapers and the Black public sphere: The utility of cartoons in the context of World War II. Poetics, 97, 101767. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101767

Kovecses, Z. (2010). Metaphor: A practical introduction. Oxford university press.

Whitted, Q. (Ed.) (2023). Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics. Rutgers University Press.