femininities and masculinities in context
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Glapka, Ewa > (ed.)
- Creator
- Braid, Barbara > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2018 - B
- Thesaurus
- gender, vrouwelijkheid, mannelijkheid, intersectionaliteit, Zuid-Afrika, Verenigde Staten, Brazilië, 21e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Collection of articles discussing gender, with examples of gender constructive processes within various contexts and by means of diverse methodologies. It addresses issues such as gender performativity, its variances depending on their historical, social and cultural contexts and the rituals, representations and institutions involved in gender performances. It demonstrates that it is impossible to consider gender as a fixed biological trait. The authors propose to look at gender performance as an ongoing process in which femininities and masculinities imply dynamic intersections with categories such as nationality, ethnicity, class, sexuality and age. With cases from South Africa, United States and Brazil.