Voluntary stepping stones of preparation for service-minded women students.

Mode of access: Internet.

“How Do You ‘Do’ Bokeh?” The Aesthetics of How-to Videos about Background Blur and Eroticized Women

Producers of online instructional videos about bokeh emphasize disks of light and out-of-focus backgrounds. They demonstrate how camera lenses and technical features can render bokeh, or unfocused areas. Photographic and video bokeh ordinarily appears away from the center of attention. The bokeh genre, in opposition to typical photography and video practices, foregrounds the peripheral and proposes aesthetics and ways of looking by seeing and not seeing objects. However, producers of online instructional videos about bokeh sometimes couple their sensual aestheticization of backgrounds to their stated attempts to satisfy viewers’ investments in filling foregrounds with images of objectified women. These producers emphasize unconventional aesthetics as a means of establishing their creative and technical expertise and obscuring their reproduction of traditional conceptions of women as viewable and controllable. Close textual analysis, literature on photography and transparency, and feminist considerations of representation allow me to consider the aesthetics and functions of this how-to form.

Women in Barbados : some demographic aspects of their employment /

"May, 1977."

Legislation of interest to women, ... General Assembly, final report.

Description based on: 1983; title from cover.

Review of legislation on women's issues /

"To members of the 80th General Assembly."

An epistle from the Women's Quarterly Meeting for the county of York : held at Leeds, the 26th and 27th of the 12th month, 1781, to the Monthly and Preparative Meetings constituting the same.

Printer's name and first part of address (George-Yard) are on the same line. Variant: on separate lines. Cf. ESTC.