Gender in the Mirror Cultural Imagery & Women's Agency

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ISBN: 9780195140415 | 0195140419
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Copyright: 2/21/2002

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Harmful, culturally prevalent imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood constrains women's self-determination. Gender in the Mirror proposes alternative imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood and advances an account of feminist discursive politics that takes on the challenge of neutralizing patriarchal imagery.

Gender Identity and Women's Agency: Culture. Norms, and Internalized Oppression Revisited

(27)

Internalized Oppression, Identity and Individuality

Subordination's Challenge to Autonomy Theory

Voice and Choice: A Feminist View of Autonomy

Patriarchal Cultures, Gender Normalization, and Women's Self-Determination

The Rush to Motherhood: Pronatalist Discourse and Women's Agency

(28)

Women's Testimony

The Scope of Autonomy: Can/Should Motherhood Decisions Be Autonomous?

Pronatalist Discourse--Matrigyno-idolatry

A la Recherche des Voix Perdues: Pronatalist Discourse and Discursive Insurgency

Gendered Models of Social Relations: How Moral and Political Culture Closes Minds and Hearts

(20)

Images of Social Relations: The Social Contract versus the Mother and Child

Imaginary Underpinnings of Mother-Child Relations

Refiguring Mother-Child Relations

The Inconclusiveness of Moral and Political Theorizing

The Family Romance: A Fin-de-Siecle Tragedy

(21)

The Controversy over Recovered Memory

Figurations of Sexuality and the Family: The Cultural Cache

Figuring One's Life

The Family Romance and Feminist Politics: Cultural Critique and Social Change

The Family Romance and Feminist Reclamation: Obstacles and Prospects

Lure and Allure: Mirrors, Fugitive Agency, and Exiled Sexuality

(49)

Narcissus and Narcissa: A Founding Tale and Its Repressed Double

Narcissus (a Translation): The Visual Culture of Feminine Narcissism

Narcissus Meets Oedipus (the Sequel): Psychoanalysis, Agency, and Heterosexism

Narcissa (a Pitch for an Adaptation): The Need for Feminist Reconstruction of Narcissistic Identity and Agency

Narcissa in Rehab (a Free Translation): Feminist Artists Revision the Woman at Her Mirror

Narcissa Unbound: Anticipating an Authentic Narcissism for Women

Miroir, Memoire, Mirage: Appearance, Aging, and Women

148

(19)

Miss Lonelyhearts' Guide to Identifying with the Stranger in the Mirror

The Self, Representation, and Beauty: A Trio of Dubious Postulates

Facing up to Scary Heterogeneity: The Limits of Becoming and the Feminization of Death

Live Ordnance in the Cultural Field: Gender Imagery, Sexism, and the Fragility of Feminist Gains

167

(26)

Sexism According to Cognitive Psychology: Conceptualization and Inference

Sexism According to Psychoanalysis: Desire and Emotion

Overcoming Sexism?

Culture, Sexism, and Feminism

Notes

193

(20)

References

213

(12)

Name Index

225

(4)

Subject Index

229

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Gender in the Mirror Cultural Imagery & Women's Agency

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