Gender in the mirror : cultural imagery and women's agency / Diana Tietjens Meyers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyers, Diana T., author.

Series:

Studies in feminist philosophy.

Studies in feminist philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Self.

Self (Philosophy).

Women--Social conditions.

Women.

Sex discrimination against women.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Cultural imagery and women's agency

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Diana Meyers' book is about the cultural imagery of women and how, once it is internalised, it shapes perception, reflection judgment and desire.

Contents:

""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 Discourse�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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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-19-020833-3

0-19-514040-0

1-280-48144-7

9786610481446

0-19-803220-X

1-4237-6218-5

OCLC:

191826549