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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?
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0140231625
- ISBN 13 9780140231625
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages528
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