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Higher Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Supporting Teaching and Learning through Turbulent Times
Memorializing Violence
Transnational Feminist Reflections
Memorializing Violence
Transnational Feminist Reflections
Labs of Our Own
Feminist Tinkerings with Science
Dancing for Their Lives
The Pursuit of Meaningful Aging in Urban China
The Dressing Room
Backstage Lives and American Film
A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imagination of audiences for over a century. In the only book-length study of the space, Desirée J. Garcia explores how dressing rooms are dynamic realms in which a diverse cast of performers are made and exposed.
