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Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

Sandra Bartky
Inferiority, Way, Signals
Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.72, Routledge

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

Sandra Bartky
Body, Hierarchy, Language
Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.74, Psychology Press

The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in particular.

Sandra Bartky
Female, Body, Femininity
Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.74, Psychology Press

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

Sandra Bartky
Inspirational, Failure, Punishment

We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.

Sandra Bartky
Males, Female, Feminine
Sandra Lee Bartky (2012). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.65, Routledge

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