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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 147 pages)
• Disciplina: 301.41/2; 301.412; 305.42
• Soggetto topico: Feminist theory; Femininity; Women - Psychology; Women - Social conditions
• Persona (resp. second.): LipshitzSusan
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Tearing the veil
• ISBN: 1-136-19433-9; 0-203-08484-5; 1-283-84607-1; 1-136-19434-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814042303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge library editions. . -Feminist theory ; ; v. 27.