Toward a Theory of Female Subjectivity

<p>Poststructuralist accounts of gender provide a useful theoretical space to unpack the workings of power and domination as they structure the organization of our language, representations, concepts, and discourse in general. One significant flaw of this theory is a failure to adequately account for the social realm of embodied individuals, social interactions, and interpretive moments. In this paper, I offer conventional femininity as a particular type of gendered habitus that highlights this theoretical flaw as it necessarily links what is promising and useful about poststructuralist accounts of gender with the physical, social, interactive, and interpretive everyday lives of women.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Year

2010

Author dc:creator

• Cupo, Dimitra

Contributors dc:contributor

• Mann, Susan A.
• Compton, D'Lane
• Luft, Rachel E.

• poststructuralism
• femininity
• habitus
• discourse
• subjectivity
• practices

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1219

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2202