Feminizing Theory

ISBN-13: 9781032057590 / Miękka / 2023 / 162 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Can femme be theory? Exploring the epistemological and methodological possibilities of femme

Rhea Ashley Hoskin

2. Why femme stories matter: Constructing femme theory through historical femme life writing

Laura Brightwell and Allison Taylor

3. What do glitter, pointe shoes, & plastic drumsticks have in common? Using Femme Theory to consider the reclamation of disciplinary beauty/body practices

Jocelyne Bartram Scott

4. "Femme ain't frail": (Re)considering femininity, aging, and gender theory

Jami McFarland and Allison Taylor

5. Theorizing TL aesthetics: Forming a femme gaze through Yes or No 2.5

Fan-Ting Cheng

6. The cauxin-femme binary: Femme performativity as a response to violence in Guyana

Preity R. Kumar

7. Queer eye for the housewife: Julianne Moore, radical femme-ininity, and destabilizing the suburban family

Aviva Dove-Viebahn

8. Making intelligible the controversies over femme identities: A functionalist approach to conceptualizing the subversive meanings of femme genders

Heidi Levitt and Kathleen Collins

9. TBG and Po: Discourses on authentic desire in 2010 lesbian subcultures in Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan

Carman K.M. Fung

O autorze

Rhea Ashley Hoskin PhD, is interdisciplinary feminist sociologist whose work focuses on femme theory, critical femininities and femmephobia. Her work examines perceptions of femininity and sources of prejudice rooted in the devaluation or regulation of femininity. Rhea is an Ontario Women’s Health Scholar and an AMTD Global Talent Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo.