02943oam 2200577 450 991078659720332120190911100031.01-136-19433-90-203-08484-51-283-84607-11-136-19434-710.4324/9780203084847 (OCoLC)823737843(MiFhGG)GVRL8PTO(EXLCZ)99267000000029879820141208d2013 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrTearing the veil essays on femininity /edited by Susan LipshitzLondon :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (x, 147 pages)Routledge library editions. Feminist theoryFirst published in 1978 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.0-415-75425-9 0-415-63704-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 WomanChapter 5The City's Achievements: The patriotic Amazonomachy and ancient AthensChapter 6The Woman-Power: Religious heresy and feminism in early English socialism; IndexThis 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 constrainedRoutledge library editions.Feminist theory ;v. 27.Feminist theoryFemininityWomenPsychologyWomenSocial conditionsFeminist theory.Femininity.WomenPsychology.WomenSocial conditions.301.41/2301.412305.42Lipshitz SusanMiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910786597203321Tearing the veil1360546UNINA