Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics

Peg Brand Weiser is Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and Associate Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. She is the editor of Beauty Matters and Beauty Unlimited and served as the first chair of the Feminist Caucus Committee of the American Society for Aesthetics.Carolyn Korsmeyer is Research Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo and a former president of the American Society for Aesthetics. Her books include Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy; Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction; Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics; and Things: In Touch with the Past. She is a former president of the American Society for Aesthetics.

• Contents Foreword by Arthur C. DantoIntroduction: Aesthetics and Its Traditions/Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn KorsmeyerPart I1. Beautiful and Sublime: "Gender Totemism" in the Constitution of Art/Paul Mattick, Jr. 2. Gendered Concepts and Hume's Standard of Taste/Carolyn Korsmeyer 3. Intensity and Its Audiences: Toward a Feminist Perspective on the Kantian Sublime/Timothy Gould 4. Stages on Kant's Way: Aesthetics, Morality, and the Gendered Sublime/Christine Battersby Select Bibliography to Part IPart II5. Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers, and the Gendered Spectator: The "New" Aesthetics/Mary Devereaux6. The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators/bell hooks 7. A History of Music/Renée Lorraine Select Bibliography to Part IIPart III8. "Who is Speaking?" Of Nation, Community, and First-Person Interviews/Trinh T. Minh-ha9. Interweaving Feminist Frameworks/Elizabeth Ann Dobie10. Monologues from "Four Intruders Plus Alarm Systems" and "Safe"/Adrian Piper11. Revising the Aesthetic-Nonaesthetic Distinction: The Aesthetic Value of Activist Art/Peggy Zeglin Brand Select Bibliography to Part IIIPart IV12. Has Her(oine's) Time Now Come?/Anita Silvers 13. Feminist Art History and De Facto Significance/Susan L. Feagin14. Leonardo da Vinci and Creative Female Nature/Mary D. Garrard15. Mothers and Daughters: Ancient and Modern Myths/Ellen Handler Spitz 16. The Image of Women in Film: A Defense of a Paradigm/Noel Carroll Select Bibliography to Part IVPart V17. Analytic Aesthetics and Feminist Aesthetics: Neither/Nor?/Joanne B. Waugh18. Reconciling Analytic and Feminist Philosophy and Aesthetics/Joseph Margolis 19. Why Feminism Doesn't Need an Aesthetic (And Why It Can't Ignore Aesthetics)/Rita Felski 20. The Role of Feminist Aesthetics in Feminist Theory/Hilde HeinSelect Bibliography to Part VContributorsIndex