Practising femininity PDF
By:Misao Dean
Published on 1998 by Univ of Toronto Pr
Femininity in Colonial Societies is a Particularly Contested Element of the sex/gender system while it draws on a conservative belief in universal and continuous values, it is undermined by the liberal rhetoric of freedom characteristic of the New World. Practising Femininity analyses the ways that Canadian texts by Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Nellie McClung, Sinclair Ross, and others work to produce and naturalize femininity in a colonial setting.Drawing on Judith Butler's definition of gender as performance, Misao Dean shows how practices that seem to transgress the feminine ideal -- emigration, physical labour, autobiographical writing, work for wages, sexual desire, and suffrage activism -- were justified by Canadian writers as legitimate expressions of an unvarying feminine inner self. Early Canadian writers cited a feminine gender ideal that emphasized love of home and adherence to duty; New Women and Suffrage writers defined sexuality as part of a biological desire to reproduce; in the work of Sinclair Ross, the feminine ideal was moulded by current Freudian models of femininity.This study is grounded in the most important current theories in gender, and will interest Canadian literary scholars, feminist historians and theoreticians, and students of women's studies.
This Book was ranked at 38 by Google Books for keyword Politics Social Sciences Women's Studies novel.
Book ID of Practising femininity's Books is 3i1aAAAAMAAJ, Book which was written byMisao Deanhave ETAG "hFXFpXc9pn8"
Book which was published by Univ of Toronto Pr since 1998 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780802081384 and ISBN 10 Code is 080208138X
Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is false
Book which have "139 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryLiterary Criticism
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false
Book Preview
Download Practising femininity PDF Free
Download Practising femininity Books Free
Download Practising femininity Free
Download Practising femininity PDF
Download Practising femininity Books
No comments:
Post a Comment