女性恐惧症与性别规范:审视女性对相互竞争和矛盾的性别信息的反应

IF 1.4 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Rhea Ashley Hoskin, Toni Serafini, Julia G. Gillespie
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虽然女性承受着更女性化/更少男性化的压力,但近年来也有记录显示,她们同时也感受着更男性化/更少女性化的压力。这种现象可能与女性恐惧症的概念有关——女性特质在身体、身份和各种社会场合被贬低和管制。尽管越来越多的研究记录了不同身份的女性恐惧症的存在,但女性对这些经历的反应仍未被探索。因此,目前的研究调查了女性(N = 97)对女性恐惧症的反应。参与者被要求描述他们是否(以及如何)试图修改任何女性表达,他们认为在他们报告的女性恐惧症事件中是有针对性的。主题分析的结果支持了女性恐惧症事件后女性表达的放大、抑制和不变的假设反应类型。我们发现,女性在面对女性恐惧症时,压倒性地压抑了自己的女性气质。引人注目的是,虽然一些女性表示没有做出任何改变,但几乎没有受访者表示,在应对女性恐惧症事件时放大了自己的女性化表达(少数这样做的人都是LGBTQ+)。我们在更广泛的女性性别监管背景下将这些发现理论化,特别是性别规范(更女性化/更男性化的压力)和女性恐惧症(更女性化/更男性化的压力)之间的紧张关系。我们认为,女性恐惧症抑制女性特质的频率表明,当面对矛盾的性别信息时,女性恐惧症可能比以前的研究认为的更有影响力。
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Femmephobia versus gender norms: Examining women’s responses to competing and contradictory gender messages
While women experience pressure to be more feminine/less masculine, recent years have documented their simultaneous experiences of feeling pressured to be more masculine/less feminine. This phenomenon can be linked to the concept of femmephobia – the way femininity is devalued and regulated across bodies, identities, and various social locations. Despite the accumulating research documenting the existence of femmephobia across identities, how women respond to these experiences remains unexplored. Thus, the current study examined women’s ( N = 97) responses to femmephobia. Participants were asked to describe whether (and how) they attempted to modify any of the feminine expressions they felt were targeted in the femmephobic incident they reported. Results of the thematic analysis supported the hypothesized response types of amplification, suppression, and no change to feminine expressions following the femmephobic incident. We found that women overwhelmingly suppressed their femininity in response to femmephobia. Strikingly, while some women reported not making any changes, almost none of the respondents reported amplifying their feminine expressions in response to a femmephobic incident (and the few who did were all LGBTQ+). We theorize these findings in the context of women’s gender policing more broadly, specifically the tension between gender norms (pressure to be more feminine/less masculine) and femmephobia (pressure to be less feminine/more masculine). We argue that the frequency of suppressing femininity in response to femmephobia suggests that, when faced with contradictory gender messages, femmephobia may be more influential than considered by previous research.
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Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-
CiteScore
1.90
自引率
21.40%
发文量
36
期刊介绍: The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (CJHS) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on the medical, psychological, social, and educational aspects of human sexuality.
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