Gender under construction. Femininities and masculinities in context / / Ewa Glapka; Barbara Braid.

Gender performativity, its variances depending on their historical, social and cultural contexts, and the rituals, representations and institutions involved in gender performances are some of the issues the authors addressed in this collection. Gender under Construction takes a non-essentialist view...

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Superior document:At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 94
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 94.
Physical Description:1 online resource (193 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Ewa Glapka and Barbara Braid
  • Introduction / Ewa Glapka and Barbara Braid
  • Masculinity in Media Consumption: Readers’ Positioning to the Discourse of a Men’s Magazine / Ewa Glapka
  • Still Pink and Pale: White Afrikaans Hetero-Femininity in Postapartheid South Africa / Christi van der Westhuizen
  • Gendering the Workplace: Between Transgression and (De-)Naturalisation / Isabelle V. Zinn
  • Inscribing the Male: Representations of Masculinity and Male Bodies in Contemporary Literature / Borja Ibaseta
  • ‘Imprisoned in a System of Work, Produce, Consume’: So How Did Jack Kerouac, Hugh Hefner, Albert Finney and John Lennon Challenge the Link between Masculinity and Responsibility? / Martin King
  • Desperately Becoming a Father: Representations of Fatherhood in Desperate Housewives / Iqbal Akthar and Deirdre Hynes
  • Sexual Violence against Men in Armed Conflict: Why Is It still Invisible? / Renata Ćuk
  • Marital Rape and Constructions of Sexual Agency / Mervi Patosalmi
  • Sexuality and Gender at a Brazilian School: Constructing Femininities / Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira , Marcia Bastos de Sá , Andrea Costa da Silva and Ana Cristina Moreira Lima.