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9781032057590: Feminizing Theory: Making Space for Femme Theory
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ISBN 10: 1032057599 ISBN 13: 9781032057590
Editorial: Routledge, 2023

Sinopsis

The term "femme" originates from 1940s Western working-class lesbian bar culture, wherein femme referred to a feminine lesbian who was typically in a relationship with a butch lesbian. Expanding from this original meaning, femme has since emerged as a form of femininity reclaimed by queer and culturally marginalized folks. Importantly, femme has also evolved into a theoretical framework. Femme theory argues that "femme" constitutes a missing piece in queer and feminist discourses of femininity. Attending to this gap, femme theory centres queer femininities as a means of pushing against the deeply embedded masculinist orientation of queer and gender theory. Thus, femme theory offers tools to shift the way researchers and readers understand femininity as well as systems of gender and power more broadly.

This book is an introduction to femme theory, showcasing how femme can be used as a theoretical framework across a variety of contexts and disciplines, such as Film & Media Studies, Psychology, Sociology, or Critical Disability Studies; from countries, including Canada, China, Guyana and the USA. Femme theory asks readers to reconsider how femininity is conceptualized, revealing some of the many taken for granted assumptions that are embedded within cultural discourses of gender, sexuality, and power.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies.

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Acerca del autor

Rhea Ashley Hoskin PhD, is interdisciplinary feminist sociologist whose work focuses on femme theory, critical femininities and femmephobia. Her work examines perceptions of femininity and sources of prejudice rooted in the devaluation or regulation of femininity. Rhea is an Ontario Women’s Health Scholar and an AMTD Global Talent Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1032057599
ISBN 13 
9781032057590
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
172
Editor
Hoskin Rhea Ashley
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