Bibliographie complète
Fantasies of femininity: Reframing the boundaries of sex
Type de ressource
Auteur/contributeur
- Ussher, Jane M. (Auteur)
Titre
Fantasies of femininity: Reframing the boundaries of sex
Résumé
In Fantasies of Femininity, Jane Ussher focuses on unraveling the contradictory visions of feminine sexuality: the fact that representations of the definition of woman seethe with sexuality yet for centuries women have been condemned for exploring their own sexual desires. In her quest for the sources of feminine representation, Ussher interviewed dozens of women - as well as some men - and combed popular media - from Seventeen to Cosmopolitan and Dallas to Donahue - to identify what shapes women's symbolic images of sex and femininity. Ussher argues that women have effectively resisted and subverted these archetypal fantasies of femininity, and in the process of so doing, reframed the very boundaries of sex. In this way, she exposes as myth much of what we think we know about "woman" and about "sex."
Maison d’édition
Rutgers University Press
Date
1997
Nb de pages
415
Langue
Anglais
ISBN
978-0-8135-2497-9 978-0-8135-2498-6
Référence
Ussher, Jane M. (1997). Fantasies of femininity: Reframing the boundaries of sex. Rutgers University Press. https://uqam-bib.on.worldcat.org/oclc/757443440
Approches et analyses
Cours
Discipline
Thématiques
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