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A personal, revealing, and sometimes humorous exploration of female experience, Performing Femininity challenges traditional and feminist perspectives on gender roles. Using ethnographic method, Lesa Lockford transforms herself into an image-obsessed weight watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical performer. In several evocative narratives, Lockford uses this experimental methodology to rupture the conventional dichotomy of patriarchal versus feminist points of view, goading and challenging her audience as she breaches the borders of these typically opposed ideologies. She explores how both paradigms constrain women, but also how they are simultaneously enacted and subverted in the 'performances' women play in their daily lives. Performing Femininity will be a provocative read for the student of feminist thought and for those researchers looking at innovative ways to produce and present their research.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Stepping on the Black Box: Kinesthetic Experience and the Transformation of Body Size
Chapter 3 "Would You Do It?": Doing the Scholarly Striptease for Academic Gain
Chapter 4 Reading the Body: Consuming the Feminist Scholar
Chapter 5 Reading Pink: The Beauty Persuasion
6 Thinking and Rethinking Tails, Tales and Tellings
Product details
| Published | Sep 15 2004 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 208 |
| ISBN | 9780759100732 |
| Imprint | AltaMira Press |
| Dimensions | 227 x 181 mm |
| Series | Ethnographic Alternatives |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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