Juliana Gleeson

Listening Like a Girl (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Defining femininity is an intriguing pursuit. Socially constructed and individually experienced, its definition changes across time and place. For some, it is found in the shape of the body or the length of the hair. For others, it is in the emotional response, a unique sensitivity and openness. For many, it suggests passivity.

In Listening Like A Girl, Jules Joanne Gleeson argues that at the core of the feminine is the act of listening, and more to the point, listening more intently than those speaking. While society constructs listening as a form of passivity, it hides an inherent power as a highly skilled and competent act, capable of undermining patriarchal expectations.

Extrapolating from this core observation, Gleeson takes the reader on a cultural and theoretical journey. Exploring figures from pop singer Troye Sivan to Jacqueline Rose, and discussing butch and bisexuality, as well as the links between femininity and communist politics, she ultimately lands on reflections on the tension between femininity and introspection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745351940
• Artikelnr.: 75417977

Autorenporträt

Juliana Gleeson is a writer, comedian and historian. She is the co-editor of Transgender Marxism and author of Hermaphrodite Logic. She has published essays in outlets including Viewpoint Magazine, Invert Journal and VICE, and performed internationally at a wide range of communist and queer cultural events. She lives in Vienna.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Listening Like a Girl
2. 'Just For You'
3. Female Variations
4. Two Types of Butch
5. Two Types of Bisexual
6. Red Midwives
7. Listening To Yourself