Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of OppressionThis work draws on the experiences of daily life to analyze the guises in which intimations of inferiority are conveyed to women in society. The author argues that women are recruited to an idealized, yet finally disempowering, femininity in a patriarchal society. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness | 11 |
2 On Psychological Oppression | 22 |
3 Narcissism Femininity and Alienation | 33 |
4 Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation | 45 |
5 Foucault Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power | 63 |
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Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression Sandra Lee Bartky Limited preview - 1990 |
Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression Sandra Lee Bartky Limited preview - 2012 |
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