| Description |
viii, 168 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical (p. [151]-161) references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Background. Will the "real" Cinderella please stand up? : Meet the original Cinderella ; Introducing the imposter: Cinderella according to Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm ; The message in the slipper ; Refusals to let Cinderella die ; "Living happily ever after?" ; Waiting for the prince (ladies-in-waiting?) ; Meaning and function of the slipper -- Growing up with fairy tales : Role models from fantasy and imagination ; Cinderella and the beauty myth ; Modern methods of indoctrination ; The picture of the suffering beauty (the beautiful victim) ; The promises in Cinderella's destiny ; Controlling Cinderella's fate ; Marriage: the end of the story? ; The case of Cindy, not a Cinderella story ; Cinderella's awakening -- pt. II. Past influences, usable or refuseable? The silencing of Cinderella's voice : Silence and powerlessness ; Are women silencing themselves? ; The silencing effects of physical limitations ; Listen to me! ; Silence and isolation ; Benevolent sexism's silencing and isolating function ; The silencing function of language ; A woman's space ; Yesterday's voices and the legacy for tomorrow -- Examining influences from the past : Gender-based assumptions ; The myth of women being "crazier" than men ; Discounted by others and giving up on self ; Acknowledgment or criticism? ; Meaning in women's lives ; The myth of women's need for attachment ; Fear of abandonment ; The intimate competition ; The mandatory choice between two options (career or marriage) ; Taking a closer look at myths ; Love makes everything alright -- pt. III. Effects of past influences on women's life areas. Cinderella's sexuality : Historical developments ; Implications of women's rape fantasies ; The question of stifling female sexuality ; The feminist movement and the "sexual revolution" ; Raunch feminism ; Sexual stereotypes and the power differential ; Degrees of commitment and power ; Women's sexual attitudes ; The story of hormones -- Women's relationships : Mother-daughter relationships ; Sisters: sibling rivalry? ; Women's friendships ; Female relationships in the workplace ; Mentor, protege ; First and future wives ; Mothers, staying at home or working outside the home? -- Leading a self- or other-determined life? : The "American girl" role model ; Transition from preadolescence to adulthood: a time of losses ; Adulthood: a time of chaos? ; The forgotten sense of self ; Too busy to plan for a woman's life ; The vacuum between the different roles in a woman's life ; Following her own sense of destiny ; Self-actualization or other-actualization? ; The selfhood model ; The selfhood model's application in the development of self-determination. |
| Subject |
Women -- Psychology.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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Femininity -- United States.
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Women's studies.
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| ISBN |
9780313379246 (alk. paper) |
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0313379246 (alk. paper) |
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9780313379253 (alk. paper) |
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0313379254 (alk. paper) |
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