Sandra Bartky Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

  Sandra Bartky

  Inspirational, Failure, Punishment

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• 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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