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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Table of Contents:
  • Gender identity and women's agency: culture, norms, and internalized oppression revisited
  • The rush to motherhood: pronatalist discourse and women's agency
  • Gendered models of social relations: how moral and political culture closes minds and hearts
  • The family romance: a fin-de-siecle tragedy
  • Lure and allure: mirrors, fugitive agency, and exiled sexuality
  • Miroir, memoire, mirage: appearance, aging, and women
  • Live ordnance in the cultural field: gender imagery, sexism, and the fragility of feminist gains.