Is there anything “toxic” about femininity? The rigid femininities that keep us locked in
Psychology & Sexuality, 2020 In recent years there has been rising popular discourse around ‘toxic masculinity’, and the problems of a hegemonic gender structure that facilitates male violence and misogyny.
Hannah McCann
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Multilingual gendered identities: female undergraduate students in London talk about heritage languages [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper I explore how a group of female university students, mostly British Asian and in their late teens and early twenties, perform femininities in talk about heritage languages.
Anderson B. +27 more
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Villainess Protagonists’ Performative Acts as the Representation of Modern Femininity
Lingua Cultura, 2023 The research discussed a different representations of femininity through the villainesses and heroines in two Korean webtoons (web cartoons). Traditionally, villainesses were depicted as undesirable antagonists as they did not fit into the frame of ...
Vivian Graciela Chertian
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Perceived femininity and masculinity contribute independently to facial impressions.
Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2020 In person perception research, femininity and masculinity are regularly conceived as 2 ends of 1 bipolar dimension. This unidimensional understanding permeates work on facial impressions, gender diagnosticity, and perceptions of LGBTQ individuals, but it
Neil Hester, B. Jones, Eric Hehman
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The quantification of gender: Anorexia nervosa and femininity [PDF]
, 2011 The ways in which Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has been described and explained has differed drastically over time although since it was first named in 1874 it has been primarily associated with women and girls it is argued in this paper that it came to be more
Till, C
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Typology of the Female Characters in D.S. Merezhkovsky’s and Z.N. Gippius’ Plays [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2023 The article reveals patterns in the construction of female characters in the entire corpus of D.S. Merezhkovsky’s and Z.N. Gippius’ dramas. Although their plays are connected by a number of common motifs, themes and images, the construction of femininity
Veronika B. Zuseva-Özkan
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Perception of femininity in different countries: a qualitative metasynthesis
مجله علوم روانشناختی, 2021 Background: Femininity is a complicated term because it does not define a single phenomenon. Different perceptions of femininity are very dependent on one's background and knowledge of everyday actions that the meaning of femininity understood by them ...
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The Monk by M. G. Lewis: Revolution, Religion and the Female Body [PDF]
, 2016 This paper reads The Monk by M. G. Lewis in the context of the literary and visual responses to the French Revolution, suggesting that its digestion of the horrors across the Channel is exhibited especially in its depictions of women.
Łowczanin, Agnieszka
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Corinne in the North. Madame de Staël’s Infuence on Sophie von Knorring and August Strindberg [PDF]
, 2016 Since its publication in 1807 Mme de Staël’s novel Corinne, ou l’Italie has become a fundamental reference point for many women writers, who have found in it a prototypical representation of the confict between genius and current defnitions of femininity.
Berardini, Andrea
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Styðjandi og mengandi kvenleiki innan áru kynjajafnréttis [PDF]
Íslenska þjóðfélagið: The Icelandic Society, 2012 Femininity is socially constructed and takes different shapes in different social contexts. The article discusses emphasized femininity, a concept related to Connell‘s hegemonic masculinity, in the labour market and private life.
Gyða Margrét Pétursdóttir
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