 | Judith Fetterley - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 232 pages
...the cultural reality is not the emasculation of men by women but the immasculation of women by men. As readers and teachers and scholars, women are taught...system of values, one of whose central principles is misogyny. One of the earliest statements of the phenomenon of immasculation, serving indeed as a position... | |
 | Alison M. Jaggar, Susan Bordo - Philosophy - 1989 - 392 pages
...androcentrism leads to what Judith Fetterley calls the "immasculation" of the female reader, whereby "women are taught to think as men, to identify with...system of values, one of whose central principles is misogyny" (Fetterley 1978:xx). Such "immasculation" has had profound effects. Showalter credits her... | |
 | Susan Laine Gabriel, Isaiah Smithson - English language - 1990 - 212 pages
...this idea further, Judith Fetterley suggests that the traditional canon is "immasculating" women. 9 "As readers and teachers and scholars, women are taught...system of values, one of whose central principles is misogyny" (xx). What Showalter, Fetterley, and others are suggesting is that the choice of readings... | |
 | Cain Hope Felder - Religion - 1991 - 274 pages
..."The cultural reality is not the emasculation of men by women, but the emasculation of women by men. As readers and teachers and scholars, women are taught...and legitimate a male system of values, one of whose principles is misogyny."16 In other words, according to Fetterley, in order to read texts by men, women... | |
 | Janice Capel Anderson, Stephen D. Moore - Religion - 1993 - 188 pages
...The cultural reality is not the emasculation of men by women but the immasculatian of women by men. As readers and teachers and scholars, women are taught...system of values, one of whose central principles is misogyny.2' Fetterley exposes the sexism and misogyny in standard works of American fiction by male... | |
 | Janet Staiger - Performing Arts - 1992 - 296 pages
...the cultural reality is not the emasculation of men by women but the immasculation of women by men. As readers and teachers and scholars, women are taught...system of values one of whose central principles is misogyny.4 Her suggested first step in combating this status quo is to become a "resisting reader,"... | |
 | Ruth S. El Saffar, Diana de Armas Wilson - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 354 pages
...(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978). According to Fetterley, immasculation is the process by which "as readers and teachers and scholars, women are taught...legitimate a male system of values, one of whose central positions is misogyny" (xx). The reading effect 1 describe here is an unconscious subversion of her... | |
 | Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza - Religion - 1993 - 276 pages
...States' "cultural reality is not the emasculation of men by women but the immasculation of women by men. As readers and teachers and scholars women are taught to think as men" (emphasis added). 24. Patrocinio P. Schweickart, "Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading,"... | |
 | Michael J. Hoffman, Patrick D. Murphy - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 532 pages
..."the cultural reality is not the emasculation of men by women, but the immasculation of women by men. As readers and teachers and scholars, women are taught...system of values, one of whose central principles is misogyny." l5 The process of immasculation does not impart virile power to the woman reader. On the... | |
 | Karen Schneider - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...The Resisting Reader, in which Judith Fetterly defines "immasculation" as the socialization of women "to think as men, to identify with a male point of...system of values, one of whose central principles is misogyny" (xx). 8 . All the page references to Bowen's short stories are from The Collected Stories... | |
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As readers and teachers and scholars, women are taught to think as men, to identify with a male point of view, and to accept as normal and legitimate a male system of values, one of whose central principles is misogyny... 
