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About social expectations on women throughout the ages., October 26, 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: Femininity (Paperback)
Profound in the revolutionary idea of disecting the womans existance...exposing her social expectations, struggles, and unreachable goals. For me, this book helped me see why I am the way I am. How come women are so focused on fashion? Why do we tweeze our eyebrows? It is all because society through the ages has placed this unattainable idea that women must sit this way, look this way, dress that way. When will we stop this insanity of being this thin, or increasingly obsessed with the latest fashions? Femininity holds the answers.
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HOW WE TEACH GIRLS TO BE 'FEMININE', September 30, 2010
Susan Brownmiller
Femininity
(New York: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1984) 270 pages
Perhaps the best book yet on femininity.
It could have been called a critique of femininity.
Brownmiller traces the history of being feminine in Western culture.
Then she discusses how women are suppose to look, act, & feel
in the following areas: body, hair, clothes,
voice, skin, movement, emotion, & ambition.
She does not directly criticize these practices,
but stating them explicitly enables women to examine these traditions.
Highly recommended, especially for women who notice the pressures
to conform to the culture's definition of 'femininity'.
If you would be interested in discovering other books on this subject,
search the Internet for the following bibliography:
"Best Books on Gender-Personality".
James Leonard Park, creator of the Gender-Patterns Chart.
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About social expectations on women throughout the ages., October 26, 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: Femininity (Paperback)
Profound in the revolutionary idea of disecting the womans existance...exposing her social expectations, struggles, and unreachable goals. For me, this book helped me see why I am the way I am. How come women are so focused on fashion? Why do we tweeze our eyebrows? It is all because society through the ages has placed this unattainable idea that women must sit this way, look this way, dress that way. When will we stop this insanity of being this thin, or increasingly obsessed with the latest fashions? Femininity holds the answers.
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