Critical Femininities

ISBN-13: 9781032359786 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 128 str.

Opis

This book presents a multidimensional framework for re-thinking femininity. Moving beyond seeing femininity as a patriarchal tool, it considers the social, historical, and ideological forces that shape present-day norms surrounding femininity, particularly those that contribute to femmephobia.

Spis treści

Introduction: Critical femininities: A ‘new’ approach to gender theory  1. Is there anything “toxic” about femininity? The rigid femininities that keep us locked in  2. Feminine power: A new articulation  3. Negotiating relationships with powerfulness: using femme theory to resist masculinist pressures on feminist femininities  4. Radical vulnerability: selfies as a Femme-inine mode of resistance  5. “But where are the dates?” Dating as a central site of fat femme marginalisation in queer communities  6. Stacys, Beckys, and Chads: the construction of femininity and hegemonic masculinity within incel rhetoric  7. How is masculinity ideology related to transprejudice in Turkey: the mediatory effect of femmephobia  8. Breastfeeding, ‘tainted’ love, and femmephobia: containing the ‘dirty’ performances of embodied femininity  9. T(w)een sexting and sexual behaviour: (d)evaluating the feminine other