Martha Bayles

Martha Bayles teaches humanities at Boston College. Her most recent book is Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America’s Image Abroad.

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Hollywood’s Great Leap Backward on Free Expression

Beijing moves to co-opt the American film industry as it seeks to penetrate the world’s largest market.
- Martha Bayles
- September 15, 2019
Reuters

How the World Perceives the New American Dream

And why today’s dream doesn’t export as well as the original
- Martha Bayles
- October 10, 2015
Feminism and Abortion

Pro-choice arguments, the author says, reflect the ambitions, hypocrisies, and contradictions of contemporary feminism
- Martha Bayles
- April 1990 Issue

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Martha Bayles

Hollywood’s Great Leap Backward on Free Expression

How the World Perceives the New American Dream

Feminism and Abortion