Minding the body: women writers on body and soul
Growing up in the Deep South in the late 1950s, writer Patricia Foster was taught that a woman's body was her way of speaking her worth: restricted linguistically and sexually, women were to dress appropriately and decoratively and act like ladies at all times
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New York u.a.
Doubleday
1994
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Growing up in the Deep South in the late 1950s, writer Patricia Foster was taught that a woman's body was her way of speaking her worth: restricted linguistically and sexually, women were to dress appropriately and decoratively and act like ladies at all times When, in 1986, Foster returned to the South to teach a course in women's literature at a state university, she was amazed at the dissatisfaction young women felt about their bodies - even after the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s turned gender expectations upside down. "I'd rather have five pounds off my thighs than an A in this class," one woman confessed, and others agreed. Given the choice between mental stimulus and physical perfection, most students said they would choose the latter How and why, Foster wondered, had women returned to such a fragile status |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 321 S. |
| ISBN: | 0385470223 |
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