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Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression

Sandra Lee Bartky

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Bartky draws on the experience of daily life to unmask the many disguises by which intimations of inferiority are visited upon women. She critiques both the male bias of current theory and the debilitating dominion held by notions of proper femininity over women and their bodies in patriarchal culture.

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Bartky draws on the experience of daily life to unmask the many disguises by which intimations of inferiority are visited upon women. She critiques both the male bias of current theory and the debilitating dominion held by notions of proper femininity over women and their bodies in patriarchal culture.

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Bartky draws on the experience of daily life to unmask the many disguises by which intimations of inferiority are visited upon women. She critiques both the male bias of current theory and the debilitating dominion held by notions of proper femininity over women and their bodies in patriarchal culture.

Key concepts: Femininity, Oppression, Phenomenology (philosophy), Gender studies, Dominion, Sociology, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

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