{"title":"Pocket Readers","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"migrant-mother-migrant-gender-sally-stein","title":"Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEbook available via this listing, on \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/id6447069908?ls=1\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eApple Books\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/bry5Ve?store=amazon\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eKindle Store\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\"I contend that in close comparison with Marian icons, the reason why this photograph continues to command attention is that it is not so simple or familiar a variant of the holy family imagery as it first appears.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange’s long-overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact be seen as a disruptive image of women’s conflictual relation to home, and the world. Stein is an American academic and cultural theorist living in Los Angeles. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr. Stein, Professor Emerita, UC Irvine, is an independent scholar based in Los Angeles who continues to research and write about 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003ecentury photography in the U.S. and its relation to broader questions of culture and society. She has written about New Deal FSA photographers—particularly Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano—as well as the contested image of FDR.  Her numerous essays about popular mass media – \u003cem\u003eLadies Home Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLife \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Look\u003c\/em\u003e – extend her ongoing study of the various aspects of the rise of color photography. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a theorist, artist, or writer engages in a dialogue with a theme, an artwork, an idea, or another individual across an extended text. 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As they discuss the differences, similarities, and resonances between their practices, they run up against some of the illuminating difficulties of dialogue itself. The result is a kind of awkward duet in which two thinkers and practitioners accommodate, interrupt, and perplex each other in an attempt to say something about what listening means.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a theorist, artist, or writer engages in a dialogue with a theme, an artwork, an idea, or another individual across an extended text. 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