Femininity and Domination

Bartky draws on the experience of daily life to unmask the many disguises by which intimations of inferiority are visited upon women. She critiques both the male bias of current theory and the debilitating dominion held by notions of "proper femininity" over women and their bodies in patriarchal culture. Introduction 1. Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness 2. On Psychological Oppression 3. Narcissism, Femininity, and Alienation 4. Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation 5. Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power 6. Shame and Gender 7. Feeding Egos and Tending Wounds: Deference and Disaffection in Women's Emotional Labor