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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786597203321

Titolo

Tearing the veil : essays on femininity / / edited by Susan Lipshitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-19433-9

0-203-08484-5

1-283-84607-1

1-136-19434-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 147 pages)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory

Disciplina

301.41/2

301.412

305.42

Soggetti

Feminist theory

Femininity

Women - Psychology

Women - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1978 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Tearing The Veil Essays on femininity; Copyright; Tearing the VeilEssays on femininity; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part One Sexuality and the Body; Chapter 1The Mother and the Hospital: An unfortunate fit between the woman's internal world and some hospital practices; Chapter 2The Witch and Her Devils: An exploration of the relationship between femininity and illness; Chapter 3The Whore in Peru: The splitting of women into good and bad and the isolation of the prostitute; Part TwoRepresentations of Women; Chapter 4Tess: the Making of a Pure Woman

Chapter 5The City's Achievements: The patriotic Amazonomachy and ancient AthensChapter 6The Woman-Power: Religious heresy and feminism in early English socialism; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This a collection of essays about women, by women, which examine the production of femininity within a patriarchal society. The essays show that characteristics generally considered to be 'feminine' are in fact



cultural constructions within a patriarchal order. The patriarchal culture is taken by us to be a system of meanings, as well as power relations, which pervades our view of women at both a conscious and an unconscious level.The symbolism of the rituals, myths, art works and polemics examined in the essays is related to the ways women are psychically constructed and constrained