Justin Charlebois

Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities investigates how hegemonic and nonhegemonic forms of femininity are constructed in the social institutions of school, the workplace, and the media. Hegemonic femininities are those that form a complementary and subordinate relationship with hegemonic masculinity and in doing so legitimize a hierarchical relationship between men and women, and masculinity and femininity. Nonhegemonic femininities include culturally-idealized dominant femininities, which do not legitimize a hierarchical relationship between masculinity and femininity, and gender-deviant subordinate femininities. Through an analysis of existing empirical research and fictional media, the book illustrates the relationship between these various femininities and their relationship with masculinity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216283072
• Artikelnr.: 75137474

Autorenporträt

Justin Charlebois is an assistant professor at Aichi Shukutoku University in Nagoya, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Chapter One: The Social Construction of Gender
Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Geographies of Femininities
Chapter 4 Chapter Three: The Social Construction of Femininities in School
Chapter 5 Chapter Four: Gender and Professional Identity in the Workplace
Chapter 6 Chapter Five: Media Representations of Femininities
Chapter 7 Chapter Six: Conclusion: Femininities in a Post-feminist Era