Forming and Reforming Identity: Genders 21 - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0814780075 ISBN 13: 9780814780077

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 1995

Riassunto

Forming and Reforming Identity exposes the historical sites of identity formation and seeks to define the mechanisms of modern-day gender ideologies. Illuminating the power of the family and state in shaping gender identities, the book also examines the constitution of these identities. Each chapter reveals the complexities and contradictions that inevitably accompany the formation of any new category of identity, whether they are deliberately restrictive or intended as a reformation of the old.

The volume moves, as gender construction does, across a field of different media: novels, plays, teleplays, films, official documents, political theory, and advertisements. Four sectionsREMOLDING WOMAN; REBELLING MAN; HOMEMADE IDENTITIES; and FEMINISMS THAT MAKE (A) DIFFERENCEaddress such subjects as the representation of American women in the 1950s; nationalism and respectable sexuality in India; women, Hollywood cinema, and World War II; compulsory heterophobia; and the televising of AIDS.
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Su questo libro

L'autore:

Carol Siegel is Associate Professor of English at Washington State University, Vancouver and author of Lawrence Among the Women: Wavering Boundaries in Women's Literary Traditions and Male Masochism: Modern Revisions of the Story of Love.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0814780075
• ISBN 13: 9780814780077
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 382
• Redattore: Siegel Carol, Kibbey Ann