Between Femininities

Author : Marnina Gonick
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791486344

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Between Femininities by Marnina Gonick Pdf

Arguing for a recognition of the contradictory and ambivalent identifications that both attract and repel those who live the social category "girl," Marnina Gonick analyzes the discourses and practices defining female sexuality, embodiment, relationship to self and other, material culture, use of social space, and cultural-political agency and power. Based on a school-community project involving collaborative production of a video which tells the stories of several fictional girl characters, Gonick examines the contradictory and textured structure of the discourses available to girls through which their identities are negotiated. Woven throughout the book is the integral concern with the way in which ethnographic writing as a discursive practice is also implicated in the production and signification of social identities for girls.

Author : Justin Charlebois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Femininity
ISBN : 073914488X

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Gender and the Construction of Dominant, Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities by Justin Charlebois Pdf

Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities analyzes the construction of femininities within the key social institutions of school, work, and the media. The book draws from previous research to demonstrate how femininities are constructed in school and work and analyzes gendered representations in current fictional media.

Author : Susan Brownell,Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520211030

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Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities by Susan Brownell,Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Pdf

Chinese Literature: Lydia H. Liu

Author : Rhea Ashley Hoskin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000436853

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Feminizing Theory by Rhea Ashley Hoskin Pdf

The term "femme" originates from 1940s Western working-class lesbian bar culture, wherein femme referred to a feminine lesbian who was typically in a relationship with a butch lesbian. Expanding from this original meaning, femme has since emerged as a form of femininity reclaimed by queer and culturally marginalized folks. Importantly, femme has also evolved into a theoretical framework. Femme theory argues that "femme" constitutes a missing piece in queer and feminist discourses of femininity. Attending to this gap, femme theory centres queer femininities as a means of pushing against the deeply embedded masculinist orientation of queer and gender theory. Thus, femme theory offers tools to shift the way researchers and readers understand femininity as well as systems of gender and power more broadly. This book is an introduction to femme theory, showcasing how femme can be used as a theoretical framework across a variety of contexts and disciplines, such as Film & Media Studies, Psychology, Sociology, or Critical Disability Studies; from countries, including Canada, China, Guyana and the USA. Femme theory asks readers to reconsider how femininity is conceptualized, revealing some of the many taken for granted assumptions that are embedded within cultural discourses of gender, sexuality, and power. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies.

Author : Nina Laurie,Claire Dywer,Sarah L. Holloway,Fiona Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317881995

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Geographies of New Femininities by Nina Laurie,Claire Dywer,Sarah L. Holloway,Fiona Smith Pdf

Geographies of New Femininities examines the emergence of contemporary constructions of femininity in a global context. It asks whether these femininities are new and suggests that current celebrations of diversity in the lived experience and performance of women's identities are largely Euro-centric. Through four in-depth case studies Geographies of New Femininities illustrates how constructions of femininities across the world reflect gender inequalities embedded within global/local geographies of social and economic change. The analysis brings together key themes in geography and feminist studies, showing how globalisation and the fracturing of identities are influencing research on gender. Throughout the book the authors explore spaces of opportunity and oppression for women and highlight the geographies associated with the negotiation of gender identities. Geographies of New Femininities moves between empirical and theoretical debate using first hand accounts to work through methodological issues relating to gender and geography. It is deliberately written in an accessible style to encourage students to engage with up-to-date research on gender.

Author : Susan Paulson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317548942

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Masculinities and Femininities in Latin America’s Uneven Development by Susan Paulson Pdf

This book forges a new approach to historical and geographical change by asking how gender arrangements and dynamics influence the evolution of institutions and environments. This new theoretical approach is applied via mixed methods and a multi-scale framework to bring together unusually diverse phenomena. Regional trends demonstrated with quantitative data include the massive incorporation of women into paid work, demographic masculinization of the countryside and feminization of cities, rapidly increasing gaps that favor women over men in education and life expectancy, and extraordinarily high levels of violence against men. Case studies in Mexico, Chile and Bolivia explore changes influenced by gender practices and expectations that involve men in different ways than women; they also highlight dissimilarities and power relations between differently positioned masculine groups. Ethnographic studies of culturally diverse arrangements, together with particular attention to subordinate versus dominant masculinities, complicate the gender binaries that circumscribe so much research and policy. Drawing attention to imbalances and conflicts generated by inappropriate models and uneven developments, the book points to opportunities for experimenting with and adapting the sociocultural institutions that govern relations among humans and between humans and their environment.

Author : Denise Cruz
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822353164

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Transpacific Femininities by Denise Cruz Pdf

DIVFocusing on the early to mid-twentieth century, Denise Cruz illuminates the role that a growing English-language Philippine print culture played in the emergence of new classes of transpacific women./div

Author : Donnalyn Pompper
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498519366

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Rhetoric of Femininity by Donnalyn Pompper Pdf

Rhetoric of Femininity: Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict offers critical and social identity intersectionalities approach to interpretations of femininity among three generations of women for a rhetorical examination of how femininity is made to mean by media and popular culture. Amplified are voices of women across multiple age, ethnic, and sexual orientation groups who shared in focus groups and interviews their perceptions of femininity and feminine ideals. Femininity is explored using theories from communication and mass media, psychology, sociology, and feminist and gender studies. Donnalyn Pompper explores femininities as shaped by cultural rituals and industries, at home and at work in organizations, on sporting fields and arenas, and in politics.

Author : Justin Charlebois
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739144909

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Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities by Justin Charlebois Pdf

Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities analyzes the construction of femininities within the key social institutions of school, work, and the media. The book draws from previous research to demonstrate how femininities are constructed in school and work and analyzes gendered representations in current fictional media.

Author : Anna Pilińska,Harmony Siganporia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781848883178

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All Equally Real: Femininities and Masculinities Today by Anna Pilińska,Harmony Siganporia Pdf

Author : Monika L. McDermott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190462802

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Masculinity, Femininity, and American Political Behavior by Monika L. McDermott Pdf

This book presents a unique analysis of the effects of individuals' gendered personality traits on their political attitudes and behavior. The empirical analyses demonstrate that, regardless of biological sex, individuals' levels of masculine and feminine personality traits help to determine their party identification, vote choice, ideology, and political engagement.

Author : C. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780230246652

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Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880–1914 by C. Jones Pdf

Through the prism of gender, this text explores the contrasting cultures and practice of mathematics and science and asks how they impacted on women. Claire Jones assesses nineteenth-century ideas about women's intellect, femininity and masculinity, and assesses how these attitudes shaped women's experiences as students and practitioners.

Author : Theresa GREY (Hon.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024984290

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Idols of Society; or Gentility and Femininity ... Republished from Fraser's Magazine, etc by Theresa GREY (Hon.) Pdf

Author : R. Gill,C. Scharff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230294523

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New Femininities by R. Gill,C. Scharff Pdf

This collection of original essays looks at the way in which experiences and representations of femininity are changing, and explores the possibilities for producing 'new' femininities in the twenty-first century. The volume includes a Preface by leading feminist scholar Angela McRobbie.

Author : Hannah McCann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351717267

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Queering Femininity by Hannah McCann Pdf

Queering Femininity focuses on femininity as a style of gender presentation and asks how (and whether) it can be refigured as a creative and queer style of the body. Drawing on a range of feminist texts and interviews with self-identifying queer femmes from the LGBTQ community, Hannah McCann argues that the tendency to evaluate femininity as only either oppressive or empowering limits our understanding of its possibilities. She considers the dynamic aspects of feminine embodiment that cannot simply be understood in terms of gender normativity and negotiates a path between understanding both the attachments people hold to particular gender identities and styles, and recognising the punitive realities of dominant gender norms and expectations. Topics covered range from second wave feminist critiques of beauty culture, to the importance of hair in queer femme presentation. This book offers students and researchers of Gender, Queer and Sexuality Studies a fresh new take on the often troubled relationship between feminism and femininity, a critical but generous reading that highlights the potential for an affirmative orientation that is not confined by the demands of identity politics.