Gender in the Mirror [electronic resource] : Cultural Imagery and Women's Agency
Meyers, Diana Tietjens.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2002.
Diana Meyers' book is about the cultural imagery of women and how, once it is internalised, it shapes perception, reflection judgment and desire.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Contents""; ""ONE: Gender Identity and Women's Agency: Culture, Norms, and Internalized Oppression Revisited""; ""1. Internalized Oppression, Identity, and Individuality""; ""2. Subordination's Challenge to Autonomy Theory""; ""3. Voice and Choice: A Feminist View of Autonomy""; ""4. Patriarchal Cultures, Gender Normalization, and Women's Self-Determination""; ""TWO: The Rush to Motherhood: Pronatalist Discourse and Women's Agency""; ""1. Women's Testimony""; ""2. The Scope of Autonomy: Can/Should Motherhood Decisions Be Autonomous?""; ""3. Pronatalist Discourseâ€?Matrigyno-idolatry""
""2. Figurations of Sexuality and the Family:The Cultural Cache""""3. Figuring One's Life""; ""4. The Family Romance and Feminist Politics: Cultural Critique and Social Change""; ""5. The Family Romance and Feminist Reclamation: Obstacles and Prospects""; ""FIVE: Lure and Allure: Mirrors, Fugitive Agency, and Exiled Sexuality""; ""1. Narcissus and Narcissa: A Founding Tale and Its Repressed Double""; ""2. Narcissus (a Translation): The Visual Culture of Feminine Narcissism""; ""3. Narcissus Meets Oedipus (the Sequel): Psychoanalysis, Agency, and Heterosexism""
""4. Narcissa (a Pitch for an Adaptation): The Need for Feminist Reconstruction of Narcissistic Identity and Agency""""5. Narcissa in Rehab (a Free Translation): Feminist Artists Revision the Woman at Her Mirror""; ""6. Narcissa Unbound: Anticipating an Authentic Narcissism for Women""; ""SIX: Miroir, Memoire, Mirage: Appearance, Aging, and Women""; ""1. Miss Lonelyhearts' Guide to Identifying with the Stranger in the Mirror""; ""2. The Self, Representation, and Beauty: A Trio of Dubious Postulates""
""3. Facing up to Scary Heterogeneity: The Limits of Becoming and the Feminization of Death""""SEVEN: Live Ordnance in the Cultural Field: Gender Imagery, Sexism, and the Fragility of Feminist Gains""; ""1. Sexism According to Cognitive Psychology: Conceptualization and Inference""; ""2. Sexism According to Psychoanalysis: Desire and Emotion""; ""3. Overcoming Sexism?""; ""4. Culture, Sexism, and Feminism""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Name Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""
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Diana Meyers' book is about the cultural imagery of women and how, once it is internalised, it shapes perception, reflection judgment and desire.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic books. -- local.
Feminist theory.
Self (Philosophy).
Self.
Sex discrimination against women.
Sex role.
Women -- Social conditions.
Gender & Ethnic Studies
Gender Studies & Sexuality
Social Sciences