- Femininity - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Femininity, in the context of the Social Sciences, refers to a socializing ideology that encompasses various interpretations and expressions of being a woman
- Femininity in the 21st century - ScienceDirect
The above extract emerged from an interview with Jay, a 35-year-old, white, heterosexual mother of two The interview took place in 2008, and was part of a larger project on how women made sense of a sexiness entwined with a neoliberal consumer culture, promising freedom and sexual expression, but also about – in Jay's words – a constant regulation of femininity
- Rethinking the possibilities for hegemonic femininity: Exploring a . . .
This ‘configuration of gender practice’ is, however, only a configuration of male gender practice Connell is clear that it does not apply to women, and, indeed, states that, because all forms of femininity are constructed in the context of male domination, ‘there is no femininity that is hegemonic in the sense that the dominant form of masculinity is hegemonic among men’ (Connell
- Femininity - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
1 1 Deconstructing femininity Femininity describes the attributes, behaviors, roles, and expectations associated with being a woman that provide guidance for how women should think, feel, and act (Mahalik et al , 2005)
- Masculinity, Femininity, and Gender-Related Traits: A Conceptual . . .
The research employing the Bern Sex Role Inventory (BSRI), Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ), and other instruments containing separate M and F …
- The differential effects of state and trait masculinity and femininity . . .
At present, quantitative data relating to how state masculinity and femininity relate to body satisfaction are scarce – the majority of previous research has conceptualised masculinity and femininity as traits
- Performing femininity: Women at the top (doing and undoing gender)
An increasing number of gender studies in organization research (e g , Bowring, 2004; Kelan, 2010) have responded to the above ideas by moving beyond the traditional binary thinking in gender prescribed by sexual identity, whilst centering on the fluidity, multiplicity and becoming of gender
- The psychoanalytic concept of feminine passivity: A comparative study . . .
MAURICE LEVINE ESSAY AWARD PAPER-1973 The Psychoanalytic Concept of Feminine Passivity: A Comparative Study of Psychoanalytic and Feminist Views Sylvia A Manalis T HE AIM of this paper is to examine the psychoanalytic concept of feminine passivity as described by Freud and to review challenges of this concept by feminists and other psychoanalysts
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