Male Femininities
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Author |
: Dana Berkowitz |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 2023-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479899166 |
ISBN-13 |
: 147989916X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Male Femininities by : Dana Berkowitz
Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without women What counts as “male femininity”? Is it simply men behaving in effeminate ways or is it the absence of masculinity? Male Femininities presents a nuanced, critical collection of essays that highlight the extent to which male femininities are neither an imitation of femaleness nor an emptying of masculinity. These innovative essays focus on both gay and straight men, and transmasculine and genderqueer people in their construction and performance of femininity, thereby revealing the possibilities that open up when we critically examine femininity without women. Male Femininities asks, What does femininity look like for men? The contributors—highly regarded scholars and rising stars—cover a range of topics, including drag queens, cosmetic enhancements, trans fertility, and gender-non-conforming childhoods. Male Femininities illuminates what happens when we decouple femininity from female bodies and how even the smallest cracks and fissures in the normative order can disrupt, challenge, and in some cases reaffirm our existing sex-gender regime. This volume pluralizes the concept of male femininities and leads readers through an exploration of how gender, sex, and sexuality are manifested in the United States today.
Author |
: Dana Berkowitz |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 2023-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479839612 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1479839612 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Male Femininities by : Dana Berkowitz
"This edited volume of first-person narratives and empirical studies questions what happens when "male" bodies "do" femininity, the complexities of male femininities, and the conditions under which men engage less with masculinity and more with femininity and the consequences of these practices within a historical moment of gender binary transgressions"--
Author |
: Paechter, Carrie |
Publisher |
: McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
Total Pages |
: 189 |
Release |
: 2007-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780335219742 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0335219748 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Being Boys; Being Girls: Learning Masculinities And Femininities by : Paechter, Carrie
This book is about how boys and girls learn to be men and women. Drawing on a wide range of studies, the author examines how masculinities and femininities are developed and understood by children and young people, in families, in schools, and with their peers.
Author |
: Dana Berkowitz |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1479870587 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781479870585 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Male Femininities by : Dana Berkowitz
"This edited volume of first-person narratives and empirical studies questions what happens when "male" bodies "do" femininity, the complexities of male femininities, and the conditions under which men engage less with masculinity and more with femininity and the consequences of these practices within a historical moment of gender binary transgressions"--
Author |
: Nancy J. Chodorow |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 145 |
Release |
: 2014-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813146072 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813146070 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities by : Nancy J. Chodorow
Nancy J. Chodorow takes her fellow psychoanalysts to task for their monolithic and pathologizing accounts of deviant gender and sexuality. Drawing from her own clinical experience, the work of Freud, and a close reading of psychoanalytic texts, Chodorow argues that psychoanalysis has yet to disentangle male dominance from heterosexuality. Further, she demonstrates the paucity of psychoanalytics understanding of heterosexuality and the problematic polarizing of normal and abnormal sexualities. By returning to Freud and interpreting psychoanalysis through clinical eyes, Chodorow contends that psychoanalysis must consider individual specificity and personal, cultural, and social factors. Such a methodology entails a plurality of femininities and masculinities and enables us to understand a variety of sexualities.
Author |
: Susan Brownell |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 478 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520211030 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520211032 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities by : Susan Brownell
Chinese Literature: Lydia H. Liu
Author |
: Karl Kaser |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2021-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030784126 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030784126 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Femininities and Masculinities in the Digital Age by : Karl Kaser
This book provides a fresh overview on the debate about the remarkable regression of gender equality in the Balkans and South Caucasus caused by the fall of socialism and by the revitalization of religion in Turkey. Contrary to the prevailing opinion of researchers who state continuous male domination, the book presents strong arguments for an alternative outlook. By contrasting the realia of gender relations with the utopia of new femininities and new masculinities driven by digital visual communication, the book provokingly concludes with the arrival of two utopias: the Marlboro Man – still authoritative but lonely – conquering and refusing family obligations; and with the emergence of a new femininity type – strong and beautiful. As such this book provides a great resource to anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, gender and media researchers and all those interested in feminist issues.
Author |
: Simone Chess |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 2016-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317360865 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317360869 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature by : Simone Chess
This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors’ crossdressing, which have long held the spotlight in early modern gender studies. The author argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are especially rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures like marriage, economy, and sexuality. Further, she argues that these relational representations show that the crossdresser and his/her allies often benefit financially, socially, and erotically from his/her queer gender presentation, a corrective to the dominant idea that queer gender has always been associated with shame, containment, and correction. By attending to these relational and beneficial representations of MTF crossdressers in early modern literature, the volume helps to make a larger space for queer, genderqueer, male-bodied and queer-feminine representations in our conversations about early modern gender and sexuality.
Author |
: Janet T. Spence |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 2014-11-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781477303115 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1477303111 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Masculinity and Femininity by : Janet T. Spence
Many societies assign sharply distinguished roles to men and women. Personality differences, as well as physical differences, between men and women are used to justify these different sex roles, and women are seen as more emotionally and interpersonally sensitive than men, while men are said to be more competent, achievement oriented, and assertive than women. A widely held view is that not only do men and women differ but that possession of "masculine" characteristics precludes possession of "feminine" characteristics. This bipolar conception has led to the definition of masculinity and femininity as opposites. Acceptance of this idea has caused social scientists and laypersons to consider men and women who possess cross-sex personality characteristics as less emotionally healthy and socially adjusted than those with sex-appropriate traits. Previous research by the authors and others, done almost exclusively with college students, has shown, however, that masculinity and femininity do not relate negatively to each other, thus supporting a dualistic rather than a bipolar conception of these two psychological dimensions. Spence and Helmreich present data showing that the dualistic conception holds for a large number of groups, varying widely in age, geographical location, socioeconomic status, and patterns of interest, whose psychological masculinity and femininity were measured with an objective instrument, the Personality Attributes Questionnaire, devised by the authors. Many individuals are shown to be appropriately sex-typed; that is, men tend to be high in masculinity and low in femininity and women the reverse. However, a substantial number of men and women are androgynous—high in both masculine and feminine characteristics—while some are not high in either. Importantly, the authors find that androgynous individuals display more self-esteem, social competence, and achievement orientation than individuals who are strong in either masculinity or femininity or are not strong in either. One of the major contributions of the work is the development of a new, multifaceted measure of achievement motivation (the Work and Family Orientation Questionnaire), which can be used successfully to predict behavior in both males and females and is related to masculinity and femininity in both sexes. In addition to investigating the correlates of masculinity and femininity, the authors attempt to isolate parental factors that contribute to the development of these characteristics and achievement motivation. The book includes analyses of data from students on their perception of their parents, which enable the authors to examine the influence of parental masculinity and femininity and parental behaviors and child-rearing attitudes on the development of masculinity and femininity and achievement motivation characteristics in their children. The important implications of these findings for theories of sex roles, personality development, and achievement motivation are examined.
Author |
: Judith Halberstam |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822322439 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822322436 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Female Masculinity by : Judith Halberstam
Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances. Through detailed textual readings as well as empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. She rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity. She considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities. She also explores issues of transsexuality among "transgender dykes"--lesbians who pass as men--and female-to-male transsexuals who may find the label of "lesbian" a temporary refuge. Halberstam also tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators. Female Masculinity signals a new understanding of masculine behaviors and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs, including portraits, film stills, and drag king performance shots, this book provides an extensive record of the wide range of female masculinities. And as Halberstam clearly demonstrates, female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders.