Critical Femininities (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hoskin, Rhea Ashley; Blair, Karen L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000785982
• Artikelnr.: 65547374

Autorenporträt

Rhea Ashley Hoskin, Ph.D., is an 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 the Co-Founder of LGBTQ Psychology Canada and an AMTD Global Talent Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo and St. Jerome's University, Canada. Karen L. Blair, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Trent University, Canada; the founder of KLB Research; and Director of the Trent University Social Relations, Attitudes and Diversity Lab. Dr. Blair's work focuses on LGBTQ Psychology, relationships and health, prejudice, femmephobia, hate crimes and Holocaust education. She is the Co-Founder of LGBTQ Psychology Canada and has been the Chair of the Canadian Psychological Association's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Section since 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

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