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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Sandra Lee Bartky was a professor of philosophy and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her main research areas were feminism and phenomenology. Her notable contributions to the field of feminist philosophy include the article, "The Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness". Sandra Lee Bartky died on October 17, 2016 at her home in Saugatuck, Michigan at age 81.
We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.
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.
Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.
Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.
Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.