“The Fact She Has Anorexia Fits in Perfectly”: Beverley Allitt, Self-Starvation, and Media Narratives of Criminal Femininity
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DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2020.1740901
Abstract: Abstract This article examines the press construction in the early 1990s of Beverley Allitt, the nurse known as one of the Britain’s most prolific women serial killers, focusing on Allitt’s diagnosis of anorexia at the… read more here.
Keywords: fact anorexia; femininity; self starvation; beverley allitt ... See more keywords
The dreaded body: disgust and the production of “appropriate” femininity
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DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2015.1095081
Abstract: Abstract While some literature has explored women’s feelings about social identities like fatness, race, disability, queerness, and aging, little research has examined, from an intersectional perspective, how women construct a dreaded or viscerally disgusting body… read more here.
Keywords: disgust production; femininity; body disgust; appropriate femininity ... See more keywords
‘If your life feels empty, perhaps it’s time to find a partner?’ Constructions of heterosexual coupledom and femininity through astrological advice in a Norwegian women’s magazine
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DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2016.1150159
Abstract: Abstract The notion that happiness is found in heterosexual coupledom is a persistent theme in popular women’s genre such as women’s magazines. The emergence of post-feminist discourses demonstrates that such conventional scripts are presented in… read more here.
Keywords: heterosexual coupledom; coupledom; norwegian women; article ... See more keywords
‘Flat and fabulous’: women’s breast reconstruction refusals post-mastectomy and the negotiation of normative femininity
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DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2019.1601547
Abstract: ABSTRACT The ‘pinkification’ of breast cancer culture in recent years conflates women’s empowerment with the celebration of hyperfemininity. Consistent with this trend, reconstructive surgery post-mastectomy is increasingly normalised: restoring the breasts is to restore ‘lost’… read more here.
Keywords: femininity; post mastectomy; breast cancer; breast reconstruction ... See more keywords
Online staging of femininity: disciplining through public exposure in Brazilian social media
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DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2018.1447336
Abstract: Abstract This article analyses the architecture of online environments as facilitating both the performance and the staging, within a Brazilian context, of a sexualised femininity that is stereotypically reductive to hegemonic definitions of body image… read more here.
Keywords: social media; public exposure; femininity; brazilian social ... See more keywords
Examining the Impact of Breast Augmentation vs Hormone Therapy on Chest Femininity of Transgender Women.
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DOI: 10.1093/asj/sjac288
Abstract: BACKGROUND For transgender women, there is often the innate assumption that surgical breast augmentation will increase perceived chest femininity beyond hormone therapy alone. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate whether lay individuals found surgically augmented… read more here.
Keywords: transgender patients; hormone; breast; transgender ... See more keywords
Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and A ‘Successfully’ Balanced Femininity in Celebrity CEO Autobiographies
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DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12167
Abstract: This article explores the construction a ‘successfully’ balanced femininity in the female celebrity CEO autobiography genre, and how it is shaped by the postfeminist and neoliberal context. The paper shows how achieving successful and therefore… read more here.
Keywords: balanced femininity; femininity; successfully balanced; celebrity ceo ... See more keywords
Femininity Anchors: Heterosexual Relationships and Pregnancy as Sites of Harassment for U.S. Servicewomen
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DOI: 10.1177/00031224221110535
Abstract: This article draws on in-depth interviews with 50 U.S. servicewomen to advance sociological understandings of gender, femininity, and harassment. Recognizing that women are targeted with harassment throughout their military careers, I analyze specific episodes of… read more here.
Keywords: anchors heterosexual; relationships pregnancy; femininity; femininity anchors ... See more keywords
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind
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DOI: 10.1177/00113921221132315
Abstract: The article depicts feminine subjectivity among women of the millennial generation. Content analysis of an open question relating to the answers of 623 Israeli participants reveals perceptions of femininity as at once gender conscious and… read more here.
Keywords: state mind; femininity harmonious; millennial femininity; sociology ... See more keywords
The feminist politics of Meghan Markle: Brexit, femininity and the nation in crisis
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DOI: 10.1177/1367549420980010
Abstract: This article examines the relationship between femininity, popular feminism and the monarchy in the United Kingdom in a time of national and political crisis. Since her entry into the royal family ... read more here.
Keywords: femininity; meghan markle; feminist politics; markle brexit ... See more keywords
Conversations about femininity and gender identity during palliative therapy.
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DOI: 10.12968/ijpn.2022.28.3.108
Abstract: Hospices are the last place of medical care for most patients before their death. Female patients who have taken part in palliative therapy have reported feeling that their femininity was 'taken away' from them by… read more here.
Keywords: palliative therapy; gender identity; femininity; conversations femininity ... See more keywords