Rhea Ashley Hoskin and Karen L. Blair
1. Is there anything “toxic” about femininity? The rigid femininities that keep us locked in
Hannah McCann
2. Feminine power: a new articulation
Bernadette Barton and Lisa Huebner
3. Negotiating relationships with powerfulness: using femme theory to resist masculinist pressures on feminist femininities
Jocelyne Bartram Scott
4. Radical vulnerability: selfies as a Femme-inine mode of resistance
Andi Schwartz
5. “But where are the dates?” Dating as a central site of fat femme marginalisation in queer communities
Allison Taylor
6. Stacys, Beckys, and Chads: the construction of femininity and hegemonic masculinity within incel rhetoric
Lauren Menzie
7. How is masculinity ideology related to transprejudice in Turkey: the mediatory effect of femmephobia
Beril Türkoğlu and Gülden Sayılan
8. Breastfeeding, ‘tainted’ love, and femmephobia: containing the ‘dirty’ performances of embodied femininity
Lilith A. Whiley, Sarah Stutterheim and Gina Grandy
9. T(w)een sexting and sexual behaviour: (d)evaluating the feminine other
Antonio García-Gómez
Biography
Rhea Ashley Hoskin, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary feminist sociologist whose work focuses on femme theory, critical femininities, and femmephobia. Her work examines perceptions of femininity and sources of prejudice rooted in the devaluation or regulation of femininity. Rhea is the Co-Founder of LGBTQ Psychology Canada and an AMTD Global Talent Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo and St. Jerome’s University, Canada.
Karen L. Blair, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Trent University, Canada; the founder of KLB Research; and Director of the Trent University Social Relations, Attitudes and Diversity Lab. Dr. Blair’s work focuses on LGBTQ Psychology, relationships and health, prejudice, femmephobia, hate crimes and Holocaust education. She is the Co-Founder of LGBTQ Psychology Canada and has been the Chair of the Canadian Psychological Association’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Section since 2014.
