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Tag archive for ‘Friendship’

<p></p><p>I Lost my Wife to Facebook,  and Other Myths that Might be True

I Lost my Wife to Facebook, and Other Myths that Might be True

by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Facebook anyone? Looking to the online community, Facebook, the author considers how nostalgia and irony simultaneously figure into this current trend.

<p></p><p><em>Playboy</em> Feminism? Hugh Hefner and <em>The Girls Next Door</em>

Playboy Feminism? Hugh Hefner and The Girls Next Door

by: Moya Luckett / New York University
The Girls Next Door plays with significant ideological contradictions as it tries to address the prevailing popularity of the Playboy bunny image with a new generation of women while trying to remove any taint of sexual exploitation from its girls.