Femininity, in the context of the Social Sciences, refers to a socializing ideology that encompasses various interpretations and expressions of being a woman. It is not a fixed set of essential traits, but rather a concept that defines and …

2023年2月1日 · The above extract emerged from an interview with Jay, a 35-year-old, white, heterosexual mother of two. The interview took place in 2008, and was part of a larger project on how women made sense of a sexiness entwined with a neoliberal consumer culture, promising freedom and sexual expression, but also about – in Jay's words – a constant regulation of …

The distinction between masculinity and femininity is increasingly recognized as a continuous dimension, with each individual having both masculine and feminine attributes in varying degrees. Masculinity and femininity are inherently relational concepts, arising from gender relations in particular socio-historical contexts.

1984年1月1日 · Substitution of traditional bipolar theories with the proposition that masculinity and femininity are independent dimensions and that androgyny, a combination of both, is associated with greater psychological competency than sex-typing held out the promise that a society, in which roles are not differentially assigned to men and women, except ...

2006年5月1日 · Femininity is thus simultaneously encoded as both the agent of and the weapon against debilitating illness. The most persuasive manifestation of femininity is nothing but a sham; both the ‘evil’ and the ‘good’ woman in the story enact rather than embody femininity. Kenealy's premise of the biological essence of ‘femininity’ and ...

2001年5月1日 · For instance, Poovey (1984) charts how the emergence of femininity as an ideal was produced through textuality in the 18th century and the category of femininity generated had an affinity with the habitus of the upper classes: of ease, restraint, calm, and luxurious decoration. It was a category of pure, white, heterosexuality, later translated ...

2014年8月1日 · Masculinity, femininity, and gendered attitudes were also significantly related to the texting variables, with traditional gender attitudes positively associated with texting interfering with studying/classes, relationship conflict, using vulgar abbreviations, and sexual text messages sent and received (males only).

2020年1月1日 · Moreover, self-rated femininity/masculinity does not correlate with other-rated or measured femininity/masculinity in women (Pereira et al., 2019). Thus, results of the relationship between femininity/masculinity and sociosexuality depend on the method of femininity/masculinity measurement (see also Lippa, 2005, for review on the controversy of ...

2024年3月1日 · Since the mid-twentieth century, conceptualizations of Chinese femininity have been subject to an array of complex influences, including Maoism, western perceptions of femininity, the rising influence of mass and social media, and the goals of the state (Liu, 2014). Traditional Chinese values changed dramatically under Mao's leadership ...

2001年5月1日 · Femininity is the process through which women are gendered and become specific sorts of women. The process of becoming feminine, Smith (1988) argues, occurs in the spaces of textually mediated discourse, in the dialectic between the active creating subject and the organisation of her activity in and by texts, produced in the interests of a wider global market.