Being Gorgeous

Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

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

Utgivningsdatum:2015-06-09
Mått:136 x 214 x 18 mm
Vikt:320 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781780762845

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jacki Willson is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins University of the Arts, London. She is the author of The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque (I.B. Tauris, 2008).

Recensioner i media

'... important, timely and provocative' - Debra Ferreday, author of Online Belongings; 'The author has raised an important point overall, especially with regards to how experimenting with visual aesthetics can empower women to throw off the tropes imposed by traditional notions of femininity and its associated stereotypes...a thought-provoking read.' - Katherine Williams, LSE Review of Books

Innehållsförteckning

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