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In Fantasies of Femininity, Jane Ussher focuses on unraveling the contradictory visions of feminine sexuality: the fact that representations of the definition of woman seethe with sexuality yet for centuries women have been condemned for exploring their own sexual desires. In her quest for the sources of feminine representation, Ussher interviewed dozens of women - as well as some men - and combed popular media - from Seventeen to Cosmopolitan and Dallas to Donahue - to identify what shapes women's symbolic images of sex and femininity. Ussher argues that women have effectively resisted and subverted these archetypal fantasies of femininity, and in the process of so doing, reframed the very boundaries of sex. In this way, she exposes as myth much of what we think we know about "woman" and about "sex."
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Jane M. Ussher is a senior lecturer in psychology as well as resarch director of the Women's Health Research Unit at University College, London. She is the author of several books, including "The Psychology of the Female Body" and "Women's Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness?
In Fantasies of Femininity, Jane Ussher focuses on unraveling the contradictory visions of feminine sexuality: the fact that representations of the definition of woman seethe with sexuality yet for centuries women have been condemned for exploring their own sexual desires. In her quest for the sources of feminine representation, Ussher interviewed dozens of women - as well as some men - and combed popular media - from Seventeen to Cosmopolitan and Dallas to Donahue - to identify what shapes women's symbolic images of sex and femininity. Ussher argues that women have effectively resisted and subverted these archetypal fantasies of femininity, and in the process of so doing, reframed the very boundaries of sex. In this way, she exposes as myth much of what we think we know about "woman" and about "sex."
About the Author
Jane M. Ussher is a senior lecturer in psychology as well as resarch director of the Women's Health Research Unit at University College, London. She is the author of several books, including "The Psychology of the Female Body" and "Women's Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness?
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- Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate by Lynne Segal on 7 pages
- Pornography and Sexual Aggression by Neil M. Malamuth on 4 pages
- Power of Feminist Art by Norma Broude on 4 pages
- Formations of Fantasy by Victor Burgin on 4 pages
- Women in Film Noir by E.Ann Kaplan on 4 pages
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- Body Talk: The Material and Discursive Regulation of Sexuality, Madness and Reproduction by Jane M. Ussher in Front Matter, page 130, and page 157
- MANAGING THE MONSTROUS FEMININE (Women and Psychology) by J.m. Ussher in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Body Talk: The Material and Discursive Regulation of Sexuality, Madness and Reproduction by Jane M. Ussher in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Different Wavelengths: Studies of the Contemporary Women's Movement by Jo Reger on page 193
- Pathology and the Postmodern: Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience (Inquiries in Social Construction series) by Dwight Fee in Front Matter
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