Critical Femininities
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Critical Femininities

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Critical Femininities

About this book

What would change about our existing world if we re-imagined and re-valued femininity? Critical Femininities presents a multidimensional framework for re-thinking femininity. Moving beyond seeing femininity as a patriarchal tool, this book considers the social, historical, and ideological forces that shape present-day norms surrounding femininity, particularly those that contribute to femmephobia: the systematic devaluation and regulation of all that is deemed feminine.

Each chapter offers a unique application of the Critical Femininities framework to disparate areas of inquiry, ranging from breastfeeding stigma to Incel ideology, and attempts to answer pressing questions concerning the place of femininity within gender and social theory. How can we conceptualise feminine power? In what ways can vulnerability act as a powerful mode of resistance? How can we understand femininity as powerful without succumbing to masculinist frameworks? What ideological underpinnings maintain Critical Femininities as an emergent field, despite traceable origins pre-dating second-wave feminism?

As the provocative entries within this volume will certainly generate additional questions for anyone invested in society's treatment of femininity, this book offers a launching pad for the continued growth of a field that cultivates insight from a feminine frame of reference as a means of rendering visible the taken-for-granted presence of masculinity that remains pervasive within gender theory.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Psychology & Sexuality.

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Yes, you can access Critical Femininities by Rhea Ashley Hoskin, Karen L. Blair, Rhea Ashley Hoskin,Karen L. Blair in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Ciencias sociales & Sociología. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781032359786
eBook ISBN
9781000785982
Edition
1
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Sociología

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Citation Information
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Introduction: Critical femininities: a ‘new’ approach to gender theory
  9. 1 Is there anything “toxic” about femininity? The rigid femininities that keep us locked in
  10. 2 Feminine power: a new articulation
  11. 3 Negotiating relationships with powerfulness: using femme theory to resist masculinist pressures on feminist femininities
  12. 4 Radical vulnerability: selfies as a Femme-inine mode of resistance
  13. 5 “But where are the dates?” Dating as a central site of fat femme marginalisation in queer communities
  14. 6 Stacys, Beckys, and Chads: the construction of femininity and hegemonic masculinity within incel rhetoric
  15. 7 How is masculinity ideology related to transprejudice in Turkey: the mediatory effect of femmephobia
  16. 8 Breastfeeding, ‘tainted’ love, and femmephobia: containing the ‘dirty’ performances of embodied femininity
  17. 9 T(w)een sexting and sexual behaviour: (d)evaluating the feminine other
  18. Index