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100 | _a Lockford, Lesa, 1958- | ||
245 | _a Performing femininity : rewriting gender identity | ||
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_a Walnut Creek, CA _b AltaMira Press _c2003 |
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300 | _a xi, 175 pages ; 24 cm. | ||
520 | _aPerforming 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 | ||
942 | _cBK |