Snowflakes and Snowdrifts: Individualism and Sexuality in AmericaUniversity Press of America, 1986 - Počet stran: 282 This study examines the tension between individualistic values and sex-related expectations in American society and analyzes their impact on many aspects of sexuality in America. Contents: A Society of Individuals; Masculinity and the Main Chance; Invisible Woman; Hypermasculinity; Hypomasculinity; The Spectre of Homosexuality; On Being Gay in a 'Straight' Society; Assimilation versus Pluralism; Transforming Sex-Related Categories; Repudiating Sex-Related Categories; and Confronting an Unliberated World. |
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Strana 172
... challenge the process of categorization , but it does trans- form people's sense that they are defined in ways over which they have no control into one of being collectively unique in ways which they willingly affirm . To the degree to ...
... challenge the process of categorization , but it does trans- form people's sense that they are defined in ways over which they have no control into one of being collectively unique in ways which they willingly affirm . To the degree to ...
Strana 193
... challenged . Within the educational system " child , adolescent or adult should not be barred from any activity ... challenge categorical distinctions between the sexes . Women in turn may augment their femininity in parallel ways ...
... challenged . Within the educational system " child , adolescent or adult should not be barred from any activity ... challenge categorical distinctions between the sexes . Women in turn may augment their femininity in parallel ways ...
Strana 252
... challenges to the lim- itations imposed by categorization . In some respects women and gay people can be seen as ... challenged , these changes remain within the primary tradition of American individualism . Whether what is happening is ...
... challenges to the lim- itations imposed by categorization . In some respects women and gay people can be seen as ... challenged , these changes remain within the primary tradition of American individualism . Whether what is happening is ...
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A Society of Individuals | 7 |
Masculinity and the Main Chance | 27 |
Invisible Woman | 49 |
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