Rhetoric of Femininity (eBook)

Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict

Donnalyn Pompper (Autor)

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2016
298 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1936-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book offers a rhetorical examination of how femininity is defined and portrayed across media and popular culture. To do so, Pompper analyzes interviews with women representing multiple age, ethnic, and sexual orientation groups.

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Rhetoric of Femininity: Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict offers critical and social identity intersectionalities approach to interpretations of femininity among three generations of women for a rhetorical examination of how femininity is made to mean by media and popular culture. Amplified are voices of women across multiple age, ethnic, and sexual orientation groups who shared in focus groups and interviews their perceptions of femininity and feminine ideals. Femininity is explored using theories from communication and mass media, psychology, sociology, and feminist and gender studies. Donnalyn Pompper explores femininities as shaped by cultural rituals and industries, at home and at work in organizations, on sporting fields and arenas, and in politics.

Autor

Donnalyn Pompper is professor in School of Media & Communication at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Inhalt

Misrepresentations: Rituals and Industries that Shape Femininity Chapter 6: Women at Play: Sports and Femininity Chapter 7: Femininity as Shaped by Intersectionalities of Social Identity DimensionsChapter 8: Sexuality, Masculine Femininity, and Feminine Masculinity Chapter 9: Age, Health, and Femininity Chapter 10: Femininity and Politics Chapter 11: Lessons and Moving Forward BibliographyAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
• Zusatzinfo: 22 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 20 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 1 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: femininity • Gender • International and Global Communication • Media and society • rhetoric
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1936-9 / 1498519369
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1936-6 / 9781498519366