Male Femininities

Author : Dana Berkowitz,Elroi J. Windsor,C. Winter Han
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479899166

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Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without women What counts as “male femininity”? Is it simply men behaving in effeminate ways or is it the absence of masculinity? Male Femininities presents a nuanced, critical collection of essays that highlight the extent to which male femininities are neither an imitation of femaleness nor an emptying of masculinity. These innovative essays focus on both gay and straight men, and transmasculine and genderqueer people in their construction and performance of femininity, thereby revealing the possibilities that open up when we critically examine femininity without women. Male Femininities asks, What does femininity look like for men? The contributors—highly regarded scholars and rising stars—cover a range of topics, including drag queens, cosmetic enhancements, trans fertility, and gender-non-conforming childhoods. Male Femininities illuminates what happens when we decouple femininity from female bodies and how even the smallest cracks and fissures in the normative order can disrupt, challenge, and in some cases reaffirm our existing sex-gender regime. This volume pluralizes the concept of male femininities and leads readers through an exploration of how gender, sex, and sexuality are manifested in the United States today.

Author : Dana Berkowitz,Elroi J. Windsor,C. Winter Han
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479839612

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"This edited volume of first-person narratives and empirical studies questions what happens when "male" bodies "do" femininity, the complexities of male femininities, and the conditions under which men engage less with masculinity and more with femininity and the consequences of these practices within a historical moment of gender binary transgressions"--

Author : Paechter, Carrie
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335219742

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Being Boys; Being Girls: Learning Masculinities And Femininities by Paechter, Carrie Pdf

This book is about how boys and girls learn to be men and women. Drawing on a wide range of studies, the author examines how masculinities and femininities are developed and understood by children and young people, in families, in schools, and with their peers.

Author : Dana Berkowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1479870587

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Male Femininities by Dana Berkowitz Pdf

"This edited volume of first-person narratives and empirical studies questions what happens when "male" bodies "do" femininity, the complexities of male femininities, and the conditions under which men engage less with masculinity and more with femininity and the consequences of these practices within a historical moment of gender binary transgressions"--

Author : Susan Brownell,Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Ewa Glapka,Barbara Braid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004365056

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Gender under Construction by Ewa Glapka,Barbara Braid Pdf

Taking a non-essentialist approach, this book provides a number of compelling and fascinating accounts of how gender intersects with nationality, ethnicity, economy, age, sexuality and class. The identity processes discussed richly illustrate the complexity, constructedness and contestability of gender.

Author : Anna Pilińska,Harmony Siganporia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Ester Palerm Mari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429916106

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Masculinity and Femininity Today by Ester Palerm Mari Pdf

This book presents a wide range of psychoanalytic writing on masculinity and femininity from British, European, and North and South American perspectives, exploring how masculine and feminine aspects are structured and evolve in the child, adolescent and adult. The authors address from a background of considerable clinical experience how masculinity and femininity manifest in the body, gender, sex, sexuality and the life-cycle, and cover aspects both productive and generative, constricted and defended. The importance of the parenting couple and their bond with the child in the forming of masculine and feminine idenitities is emphasized. Beginning with an overview of the development of masculinity, the developmental perspective is explored in how adolescents discover their sexuality and come to 'own' their sexual bodies. Different types of disturbance are explored including the early defence mechanism of disavowal of difference.

Author : Nancy J. Chodorow
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780813146072

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Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities by Nancy J. Chodorow Pdf

Nancy J. Chodorow takes her fellow psychoanalysts to task for their monolithic and pathologizing accounts of deviant gender and sexuality. Drawing from her own clinical experience, the work of Freud, and a close reading of psychoanalytic texts, Chodorow argues that psychoanalysis has yet to disentangle male dominance from heterosexuality. Further, she demonstrates the paucity of psychoanalytics understanding of heterosexuality and the problematic polarizing of normal and abnormal sexualities. By returning to Freud and interpreting psychoanalysis through clinical eyes, Chodorow contends that psychoanalysis must consider individual specificity and personal, cultural, and social factors. Such a methodology entails a plurality of femininities and masculinities and enables us to understand a variety of sexualities.

Author : Justin Charlebois
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Karl Kaser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030784126

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Femininities and Masculinities in the Digital Age by Karl Kaser Pdf

This book provides a fresh overview on the debate about the remarkable regression of gender equality in the Balkans and South Caucasus caused by the fall of socialism and by the revitalization of religion in Turkey. Contrary to the prevailing opinion of researchers who state continuous male domination, the book presents strong arguments for an alternative outlook. By contrasting the realia of gender relations with the utopia of new femininities and new masculinities driven by digital visual communication, the book provokingly concludes with the arrival of two utopias: the Marlboro Man – still authoritative but lonely – conquering and refusing family obligations; and with the emergence of a new femininity type – strong and beautiful. As such this book provides a great resource to anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, gender and media researchers and all those interested in feminist issues.

Author : Anoop Nayak,Mary Jane Kehily
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137328939

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Gender, Youth and Culture by Anoop Nayak,Mary Jane Kehily Pdf

The question of how boys become men or how girls become women may seem simple, but the answers can be complex. This new edition draws upon rich examples from research, popular media, and global accounts, to explore how gender is produced, consumed, regulated and performed in young lives today.

Author : Nancy J. Chodorow
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780813146089

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Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities by Nancy J. Chodorow Pdf

The author of The Reproduction of Mothering examines the problems with how psychoanalysis views sexuality and gender. Nancy J. Chodorow takes her fellow psychoanalysts to task for their monolithic and pathologizing accounts of deviant gender and sexuality. Drawing from her own clinical experience, the work of Freud, and a close reading of psychoanalytic texts, Chodorow argues that psychoanalysis has yet to disentangle male dominance from heterosexuality. Further, she demonstrates the paucity of psychoanalytic understanding of heterosexuality and the problematic polarizing of normal and abnormal sexualities. By returning to Freud and interpreting psychoanalysis through clinical eyes, Chodorow contends that psychoanalysis must consider individual specificity and personal, cultural, and social factors. Such a methodology entails a plurality of femininities and masculinities and enables us to understand a variety of sexualities. Praise for Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities “Raises challenging questions but makes no easy answers.” —Psychoanalytic Quarterly “[Chodorow’s] convincing analysis leads us to wonder whether it is any longer useful to think in terms of a normative boy and girl, man and woman, father and mother, and heterosexual and homosexual.” —Sally Moskowitz “Chodorow helps us through the dense riches of Freud’s writing, signposting his scattered but significant moments of empathy with women’s subjective experience even as she takes apart his objectified, masculine images.” —The Women’s Review of Books “A provocative reminder that these are complex issues and that humans, with their capacity for individual variation, are complicated subjects.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Rhea Ashley Hoskin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Thais E. Morgan
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791419940

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Men Writing the Feminine by Thais E. Morgan Pdf

The introductory essay provides an overview of current issues and methodologies in gender theory, while the 11 essays in the book discuss novels and poems, from the seventeenth century to the present, by British, American, and French male writers who speak as, through, or like the feminine.