Fantasies of Femininity - Reframing the Boundaries of Sex

by Jane M. Ussher

Paperback, 1997

Status

Available

Publication

Penguin Books Ltd (1997), Edition: First Edition, 528 pages

Description

In Fantasies of Femininity, Jane Ussher focuses on unraveling the contradictory visions of feminine sexuality: the fact that representations of the definition of woman seethe with sexuality yet for centuries women have been condemned for exploring their own sexual desires. In her quest for the sources of feminine representation, Ussher interviewed dozens of women - as well as some men - and combed popular media - from Seventeen to Cosmopolitan and Dallas to Donahue - to identify what shapes women's symbolic images of sex and femininity. Ussher argues that women have effectively resisted and subverted these archetypal fantasies of femininity, and in the process of so doing, reframed the very boundaries of sex. In this way, she exposes as myth much of what we think we know about "woman" and about "sex."… (more)

Original language

English

Physical description

528 p.; 5.04 inches

ISBN

0140231625 / 9780140231625

Local notes

sex/sexuality

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