Female Sexualization: A Collective Work of Memory - Couverture souple

Haug, Frigga

 
9780860918752: Female Sexualization: A Collective Work of Memory
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0860918750 ISBN 13 : 9780860918752
Editeur : Verso Books, 1987

Synopsis

Foregrounding the body, this remarkable collective work explores the sexualization of women's bodies, charting the complex interplay of social, political and cultural forces which produce a normative "femininity." A series of projects which focus on concrete instances of sexualization (hair, legs, the slavegirl stereotype, women's gymnastics) lead to a broader examination of the relationship between power and sexuality, the social and the psychological. Placing themselves at the crossroad where feminism and socialism meet, the contributors move seamlessly between the autobiographical and the analytical, questioning the diversion between personal and political, mapping the knot of memory and desire at the heart of the gendered body. Vitally, these accounts do not present sexualization as a passive inculcation of social norms: the individual is presented as taking an active role in the construction of gendered identities.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Foregrounding the body, this remarkable collective work explores the sexualization of women’s bodies, charting the complex interplay of social, political and cultural forces which produce a normative “femininity.” A series of projects which focus on concrete instances of sexualization (hair, legs, the slavegirl stereotype, women’s gymnastics) lead to a broader examination of the relationship between power and sexuality, the social and the psychological. Placing themselves at the crossroad where feminism and socialism meet, the contributors move seamlessly between the autobiographical and the analytical, questioning the diversion between personal and political, mapping the knot of memory and desire at the heart of the gendered body. Vitally, these accounts do not present sexualization as a passive inculcation of social norms: the individual is presented as taking an active role in the construction of gendered identities.

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Éditeur
Verso Books
Date d'édition
1987
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0860918750
ISBN 13 
9780860918752
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
302
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781859842072: Female Sexualization: A Collective Work of Memory

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1859842070 ISBN 13 :  9781859842072
Editeur : Verso Books, 1999
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