Female Sexualization by Frigga Haug

Female Sexualization by Frigga Haug

Foregrounding the body, this remarkable collective work explores the sexualization of women's bodies, charting the complex interplay of social, political and cultural forces which produce a normative "femininity." A series of projects which focus on concrete instances of sexualization (hair, legs, the slavegirl stereotype, women's gymnastics) lead to a broader examination of the relationship between power and sexuality, the social and the psychological. Placing themselves at the crossroad where feminism and socialism meet, the contributors move seamlessly between the autobiographical and the analytical, questioning the diversion between personal and political, mapping the knot of memory and desire at the heart of the gendered body. Vitally, these accounts do not present sexualization as a passive inculcation of social norms: the individual is presented as taking an active role in the construction of gendered identities.

Frigga Haug teaches politics and sociology in Berlin. She is the editor of Female Sexualization (Verso, 1987) and of the journal Das Argument.

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ISBN 13	9781859842072
ISBN 10	1859842070
Title	Female Sexualization
Author	Frigga Haug
Series	Verso Classics
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Verso Books
Year published	1999-10-17
Number of pages	302
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