Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional by Justin Charlebois

By Justin Charlebois

Gender and the development of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities investigates how hegemonic and nonhegemonic types of femininity are developed within the social associations of faculty, the place of work, and the media. Hegemonic femininities are those who shape a complementary and subordinate courting with hegemonic masculinity and in doing so legitimize a hierarchical courting among women and men, and masculinity and femininity. Nonhegemonic femininities contain culturally-idealized dominant femininities, which don't legitimize a hierarchical dating among masculinity and femininity, and gender-deviant subordinate femininities. via an research of current empirical learn and fictional media, the e-book illustrates the connection among those a number of femininities and their dating with masculinity.

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