| Title : | Gender in the Mirror : cultural imagery and women's agency | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Diana Tietjens Meyers, Author | | Publisher: | New York : Oxford University Press | | Publication Date: | 2002 | | Pagination: | 231 p. | | Layout: | ill. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-19-514041-5 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical references
Includes indexes | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Feminist theory
Self
Self (Philosophy)
Sex discrimination against women
Sex role
Women - Social conditions
| | Class number: | 305.42 | | Abstract: | "Gender in the Mirror is a brilliant, comprehensive, account of the many ways in which androcentric images of the feminine undermine women's self-esteem and block our capacity for self-definition. Meyers argues with some urgency that a culture so hostile to women's self-development must be radically transformed; more than this, she develops a theory of female agency that would allow each of us in her own way to create narratives of our past, our present, and more importantly, of our future." --Sandra Bartky, Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago "Ground-breaking, well-written, and accessible... Gender in the Mirror will be read by feminist theorists, gerontologists, psychoanalysts, and literary studies scholars as well as by a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate students in Women's Studies and Gender Studies programs. I also think Meyers's work will be widely discussed by non-feminist and feminist philosophers interested in the concept of autonomy."-Rosemarie Tong, Distinguished Professor in Health Care Ethics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte | | Contents note: | Gender identity and women's agency : Culture, norms, and internalized oppression revisited; The rush to motherhood : pronatalism discourse and women's agency; Gendered models of social relations : how moral and political culture closes minds and hearts; The Family romance : A fin-de-siecle tragedy; Lure and allure: Mirrors, fugitive agency, and exiled sexuality; Mirror, memoire, mirage : appearance, aging, and women; Live ordnance in the cultural field : Gender imagery, sexism, and the fragility of feminist gains; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=16423 |
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