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Femininity

Clare M. Mehta, Victoria Henry · 2017

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Emma Young · Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2018

Femininity resides at the heart of feminist debates regarding sex, gender and sexuality. As such, this chapter engages with a plethora of ways in which femininity has been defined, resisted, challenged and critiqued in contemporary short story narratives. Space, and a woman’s right to occupy space, provides the opening point of analysis through a reading of the narratives of Byatt and Tremain. The second section shifts to the notion of ‘behaving appropriately’ and examines the ways in which a selection of short stories depict and reflexively critique femininity in order to make visible and problematize societal expectations of women. Through these discussions, the female body emerges as an important motif and this is an image that will be drawn upon across the subsequent chapters. Finally, the discussion illuminates the ways in which femininity is often understood through association with a young and white female body. Subsequently, the closing section pays attention to narratives which foreground bodies “other” to this normative model and asks how this challenges the concept of femininity and, in turn, what this can tell us about contemporary feminisms.

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Brownmiller, Susan 1935-2025 · 1984

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GHIGI, ROSSELLA · Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) · 2011

The entry provides an outline of how characteristics and behaviors which are considered as typical of or appropriate to the female sex have been studied by social theorists, with a particular focus on consumer-related researches. From Simmel and Veblen to the contemporary studies of consumer culture, femininity has been described in terms of behaviors and attitudes able to shape practices of consumption, just as they are constructed by such practices in turn.

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Femininity

Holtz, Theresa · Digital Collections (East Carolina University) · 2014

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White, Nola · DigitalCommons-COD College of DuPage Research (College of DuPage) · 2024

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Femininity

M. Nicole Horsley · 2023

This chapter argues that femininity can be an anchor for rethinking gender identity, expression, and subjectivity. It helps us imagine other sexual futures that center what is marginalized, erased, and / or excessive. Regardless of the work in Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) to render femininity more complex and worthy of historical and theoretical challenges, the concept continues to be positioned as a mere reflection of traditional notions of femininity. This flattening out or simplification of femininity in WGS implies that those of us who embrace various forms of femininity are somehow unfeminist-like: less than feminist, not fully feminist, or worse, patriarchal. Femininity as embodied and performed by Black porn performers articulates the complexity and contingency in the ability to resist traditional forms of femininity in hopes of creating new ones. The Black femme, while a subject of disrespectability, is also a metaphor for hope.

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Femininity

Elizabeth Welsh · 2020

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Rafael E. López-Corvo · 2018

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Clare M. Mehta, Victoria Henry · 2020

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Robert J. Stoller · 1980

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Femininity

Stephanie C. Jennings · 2023

Building directly from the “Femininity” chapter in the first edition of The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies, the present chapter answers Carrie Heeter’s anticipation that 2012 would prove to be a transformative year for femininity in video games. It confirms Heeter’s expectations with a retrospective view from 2022, seeking to understand the ramifications of 2012 as a turning point by focusing on developments in video games and game studies during the past ten years. Characterizing this decade as fraught with contradictory tensions – in which gaming has become simultaneously more inclusive and exclusionary, and in which women’s participation has become both more visible and more constricted – the chapter re-surveys the areas of femininity in games, gaming, and the game industry to account for what has transpired. Moreover, it also examines parallel phenomena surrounding femininity within the field itself: namely, the feminization of certain strands of game studies research, the expansions of research on the particularities of intersectional femininities, and the departures of women from the field.

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Femininity

Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture · 2011

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Stephanie Lynn Budin · 2023

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Amber Jamilla Musser · differences · 2023

Written in 1987 in response to the aids emergency unfolding in the United States, Leo Bersani’s “Is the Rectum a Grave?” is often described as an early entry into the strain of queer theory that offers queerness as tarrying in abjection, failure, and antisociality. This essay, however, is much more interested in thinking about the ways Bersani mobilizes connections to femininity in “Is the Rectum a Grave?” As Bersani moves from “women and gay men” to “average, law-abiding family” to “being a woman,” femininity haunts, each of these individual nodes further illuminating an insight about femininity with and without women.

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