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## Abstract In patriarchal cultures, people internalize cultural gender imagery that enshrines procreative heterosexuality and relations of domination and subordination between men and women. Once internalized – i.e., embedded in people's cognitive and emotional infrastructure – this imagery shapes, though it does not determine individual identity. Discernable in perception, imagination, desire, reflection, judgment, and choice, internalized gender imagery not only affects individual self‐knowledge and self‐definition but also affects people's conception of human nature and hence their political principles and ideals. As a result of their ubiquity and potency, patriarchal stereotypes of womanhood interfere with women's self‐determination or, in other words, their autonomy. The book canvasses and critiques a wide range of toxic gender imagery pertaining to issues that are central to women's individual identities, e.g., mother hood, recovered memory of childhood sexual abuse, and beauty ideals. Because women (and men) typically appropriate culturally entrenched tropes, mythic tales, and pictorial images to develop their self‐portraits and self‐narratives, resisting and supplanting pa

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Author

Diana Tietjens Meyers

Publisher

Oxford University PressNew York

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195140408

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Sociology

Updated

2026-03-24