Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression

by Sandra Lee Bartky

Overview

Bartky draws on the experience of daily life to unmask the many disguises by which intimations of inferiority are visited upon women. She critiques both the male bias of current theory and the debilitating dominion held by notions of "proper femininity" over women and their bodies in patriarchal culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138134348
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/24/2015
Series:	Thinking Gender
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sandra Lee Bartky is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness 2. On Psychological Oppression 3. Narcissism, Femininity, and Alienation 4. Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation 5. Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power 6. Shame and Gender 7. Feeding Egos and Tending Wounds: Deference and Disaffection in Women's Emotional Labor