Sex workers have long served as muses for some of the world's best-known artists. Though we see these women, exposed in various states of undress, on the walls of many of the world's most famous museums, they remain relatively anonymous. Visitors who stop to read the panels accompanying these works are rarely encouraged to reflect on questions…

Addressing the underrepresentation of films by female directors in Spanish language and culture classes, this work proposes the inclusion of two films, Chus Gutiérrez's "Retorno a Hansala" (2008) and Icíar Bollaín's "También la lluvia" (2010), in the curriculum of advanced or upper-level Spanish courses. Both films expand…

In as much as Muslims and Muslim women in particular, are struggling to find accommodation and expression in a pluralist society, cosmopolitanism is grappling in its understanding and acceptance of what constitutes the presentations and representations of Muslim women. By proposing a renewed cosmopolitanism as well as a reformed approach to…