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White Femininity

Race, Gender & Power

By (author) Katerina Deliovsky
Categories: Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies, gender groups, Social groups and identities, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Paperback : 9781552663523, 144 pages, March 2010
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Table of contents

  • : Elsewhere from Here: Remapping the Territories of White Femininity
  • : Behind the White Curtain
  • : Compulsory ‘White’ Heterosexuality: The Politics of Racial and Sexual Loyalty
  • : Reinscribing Whiteness: Rituals of Unity and Exclusion
  • : Normative ‘White’ Femininity: Race, Gender and the Politics of Beauty
  • : Surveying the Road Less Travelled: Reconfiguring White Femininity
  • : References
  • : Index

Description

A thought-provoking contribution to the emerging field of white studies, this book argues that whiteness is an influential racial category, not a form of invisibility. Looking at white femininity in particular, the discussion examines the ways in which white women are compelled to demonstrate an allegiance to whiteness through their choice of intimate partners, sexual orientation, participation in racial inequality, and complicity with white feminine beauty standards.