Tuesday, April 26, 2016

The Hegemonic Female Fantasy

from Film Reader, No. 5, 1982
(Evanston IL: Northwestern University)




"We grow up in a world of received notions and attitudes, around which we shape our emotional life. We can analyze hegemony in terms of institutional compulsion or the way that institutions structure choices, we can also analyze how our desires and emotions often lead us to choose or settle for commonly held ideas about what our life as women should be."

Read more: http://pages.uoregon.edu/jlesage/Juliafolder/HEGEMONIC.HTML

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