Performing femininity : rewriting gender identity

By:

Lockford, Lesa, 1958-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Walnut Creek, CA AltaMira Press 2003Description: xi, 175 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9780759100732

Summary: Performing Femininity challenges both traditional and feminist perspectives on gender roles. Communications scholar Lesa Lockford transforms herself into an image-obsessed weight watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical performer. In several narratives, Lockford uses these autoethno-graphic methods to rupture the conventional dichotomy of patriarchal versus feminist points of view, goading and challenging her

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Performing Femininity challenges both traditional and feminist perspectives on gender roles. Communications scholar Lesa Lockford transforms herself into an image-obsessed weight watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical performer. In several narratives, Lockford uses these autoethno-graphic methods to rupture the conventional dichotomy of patriarchal versus feminist points of view, goading and challenging her

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