Female Sexualization : A Collective Work of Memory (Questions for Feminism Series)

This collective work explores the sexualization of women's bodies, charting the complex interplay of social, political and cultural forces which produce a normative 'femininity'. A series of projects which focus on concrete instances of sexualiztion lead to a broader examination of the relationship between power and sexuality, the social and the psychological.. "Vitally, these accounts do not present sexualization as a passive inculcation of social norms: the individual is presented as taking an active role in the construction of gendered identities.