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UNINA9910780081203321 |
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Autore |
Frueh Joanna |
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Titolo |
Monster/beauty [[electronic resource] ] : building the body of love |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-75880-2 |
9786612758805 |
0-520-92390-1 |
1-59734-761-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (356 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Body image |
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) |
Frueh, Joanna |
Women in art |
Gender & Ethnic Studies |
Social Sciences |
Gender Studies & Sexuality |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Aphrodite's Garden; EROTIC WEIGHT; 1 Aphrodisia and Erotogenesis; 2 Hypermuscular Performance; 3 The Passionate Wife, the Passionate Daughter; PLEASURE AND PEDAGOGY; 4 The Professor's Body; 5 Consensual Erotics; 6 Exertions of Flesh on Flesh; 7 The Primacy of Pleasure: Leisure, Crush, the Dominatrix; 8 The Amorous Stepmother: A Pedagogical Experiment; ICONS OF PLEASURE; 9 Dressing Aphrodite; 10 Blonde Bunny Goddess; 11 Border Cowgirl; 12 Scarlet Women; 13 Sade, My Sweet, My Truffle; or, Giving a Fuck; 14 Vampiric Strategies; List of Illustrations |
IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty |
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without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life. Bringing together her varied experiences as a poet, art historian, bodybuilder, and noted performance artist, Joanna Frueh shows us how to move beyond society's equation of youth with beauty toward an aesthetic for the fully erotic human being. A lush combination of autobiography, theory, photography, and poetry, this book continues to develop the ideas about the erotic, beauty, old |
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