Feminizing Theory (eBook, PDF)

Making Space for Femme Theory
Redaktion: Hoskin, Rhea Ashley

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000436839
• Artikelnr.: 62172749

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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