Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of OppressionBartky draws on the experience of daily life to unmask the many disguises by which intimations of inferiority are visited upon women. She critiques both the male bias of current theory and the debilitating dominion held by notions of "proper femininity" over women and their bodies in patriarchal culture. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness | 11 |
2 On Psychological Oppression | 22 |
3 Narcissism Femininity and Alienation | 33 |
4 Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation | 45 |
5 Foucault Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power | 63 |
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Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression Sandra Lee Bartky Limited preview - 1990 |
Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression Sandra Lee Bartky Limited preview - 1990 |
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