White femininity
Subtitle: race, gender & power
By: Katerina Deliovsky
Publisher: Fernwood Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Halifax
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781552663523
Subjects: White Women; Social conditions; Whites; Race identity; Sex role; Blanches; Conditions sociales; Blancs; Identité ethnique; Rôle selon le sexe
Description: "This book contributes to the emerging field of white studies - an examination of the notion that whiteness is not an invisible category, but is itself a category of race. Looking at hegemonic white femininity in particular, the author examines the ways in which white women are coerced and compelled to demonstrate an allegiance to whiteness through their choice of intimate partners, sexual orientation, participation in racial inequality and complicity with white feminine beauty standards. This qualitative and theoretical research points to the fundamental role that white femininity plays in securing and reproducing whiteness as a location of white power and privilege."--Pub. desc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.