Christen Bryson, Anne Légier and Amélie Ribieras (eds.), Womanhoods and Equality in the United States, 20th-21st Century Perspectives
At the heart of this book is a much-needed deconstruction of the somewhat outdated word “womanhood”, which the editors define as “the condition of being a woman or a person’s journey to creating their identity as a woman” and understand as “socially and culturally constructed rather than biological...
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2025
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| Shrnutí: | At the heart of this book is a much-needed deconstruction of the somewhat outdated word “womanhood”, which the editors define as “the condition of being a woman or a person’s journey to creating their identity as a woman” and understand as “socially and culturally constructed rather than biologically assigned” (3). Moving away from the essentialized overtone of the term and deliberately using it in the plural, the editors seek to expose the falsely monolithic character of womanhood and inste... |
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