Being Gorgeous

Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play - a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty first century. Willson discusses how, whether through pastiche, parody, or pure pleasure, artists, artistes and indeed the spectators themselves can operate in excess of the restrictive images which saturate our visual culture. By referring to a wide spectrum of examples, including Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, Matthew Barney, Dr Sketchy's, Audacity Chutzpah, Burly Q and Carnesky's Ghost Train, Being Gorgeous demonstrates how contemporary female performers embody, critique and thoroughly relish their own representation by inappropriately re-appropriating femininity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-06-09
Mått136 x 214 x 18 mm
Vikt320 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieI.B. Tauris
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781780762845

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Introduction: Being Gorgeous and FeminismPart One: Sexuality, Gender & the Art & Erotics of Visual Extravagance1 Drop Dead Gorgeous:2 Skin DeepPart Two: The Pleasure of the Visual (Being Gorgeous and the ‘Low’)3 Crinoline & Cupcakes4 Powder Puff & Beauty SpotsPart Three: Bitter-Sweet Poetry (Being Gorgeous and the ‘High’)5 The Paradoxical Body6 The Sensual Body7 Pleasure, Violence & the Sensual Spectacle8 Creative Spectatorship & the Political Imagination9 ConclusionBibliographyIndex