Gender in the mirror : cultural imagery and women's agency /

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Author / Creator:Meyers, Diana T.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description:231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in feminist philosophy
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4618419
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Varying Form of Title:Gender in the mirror
ISBN:0195140400 (alk. paper)
0195140419 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-[224]) and indexes.
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Standard no.:9780195140415
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Gender Identity and Women's Agency: Culture, Norms, and Internalized Oppression Revisited
  • 2. The Rush to Motherhood: Pronatalist Discourse and Women's Agency
  • 3. Gendered Models of Social Relations: How Moral and Political Culture Closes Minds and Hearts
  • 4. The Family Romance: A Fin-de-Siecle Tragedy
  • 5. Lure and Allure: Mirrors, Fugitive Agency, and Exiled Sexuality
  • 6. Miroir, Memoire, Mirage: Appearance, Aging, and Women
  • 7. Live Ordnance in the Cultural Field: Gender Imagery, Sexism, and the Fragility of Feminist Gains
  • Notes
  • References
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index