Alternative femininities
Subtitle: body, age and identity
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781845205331
Subjects: Mode; Féminité; Rôle selon le sexe; Vieillissement; Connaissance de soi; Identité (Psychologie); Femme
Description: Imagine a world where the oppressive, over-feminized images of women from advertising, television, films, and magazines have re-armed themselves with army boots, body modifications, and flamboyant hair. Is this just another fairy tale, and if so, why cant it be a reality? In Alternative Femininities, Samantha Holland unpacks the myth of model womanhood and considers how a particular group of real women define and practise femininity. These women, who see themselves as alternative', modify and su bvert popular images of femininity. The choices they make in clothing, appearance and body modific.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Growing Up but Staying 'Freaky'; 2 Background Reading; 3 Negotiating Fluffy Femininities; 4 How To Be a Fairy Prince; 5 Categories of Unconventional; 6 'More Like Torture than Love'?; 7 Defying the Crone?; 8 Reflections and Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.