Gender in the mirror : cultural imagery and women's agency / Diana Tietjens Meyers.

In patriarchal cultures, people internalize cultural gender imagery that enshrines procreative heterosexuality and relations of domination and subordination between men and women. Once internalized, i.e. embedded in people's cognitive and emotional infrastructure, this imagery shapes, though it...

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Main Author: Meyers, Diana T. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series:Studies in feminist philosophy.
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Summary:In patriarchal cultures, people internalize cultural gender imagery that enshrines procreative heterosexuality and relations of domination and subordination between men and women. Once internalized, i.e. embedded in people's cognitive and emotional infrastructure, this imagery shapes, though it does not determine individual identity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and indexes.
ISBN:9781423762188
1423762185
9780198032205
019803220X
9780199871476
0199871477
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.