"…In the United States and similar multicultural societies, media representations of women differ depending on varying combinations of race, gender identity, ethnicity, class and citizenship status. The white middle-class heterosexual woman holding US citizenship is held up as an ideal type for women from other groups. This is an ideal, a representation, a social construction and not an actual category of people…"
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Philosophers from the United StatesWomen academics from the United StatesFeminists from the United StatesAfrican AmericansSociologists from the United States
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On what is considered an ideal representation of U.S. femininity in “The Representation of African-American Women: An Interview with Patricia Hill Collins” in Global Dialogue
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