"Forming and Reforming Identity" exposes the historical sites of
identity formation and seeks to define the mechanisms of modern-day
gender ideologies. Illuminating the power of the family and state
in shaping gender identities, the book also examines the
constitution of these identities. Each chapter reveals the
complexities and contradictions that inevitably accompany the
formation of any new category of identity, whether they are
deliberately restrictive or intended as a reformation of the
old.
The volume moves, as gender construction does, across a field of
different media: novels, plays, teleplays, films, official
documents, political theory, and advertisements. Four
sections--REMOLDING WOMAN; REBELLING MAN; HOMEMADE IDENTITIES; and
FEMINISMS THAT MAKE (A) DIFFERENCE--address such subjects as the
representation of American women in the 1950s; nationalism and
respectable sexuality in India; women, Hollywood cinema, and World
War II; compulsory heterophobia; and the televising of AIDS.
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