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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797552603321

Autore

Willson Jacki

Titolo

Being gorgeous : feminism, sexuality and the pleasures of the visual. / / Jacki Willson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London [England] : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2015

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019

ISBN

0-85773-999-9

0-7556-9397-3

1-78076-284-4

0-85772-691-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

International Library of Cultural Studies ; ; 27

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

Femininity

Sex role

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Being Gorgeous and Feminism -- Part One:  Sexuality, Gender & the Art & Erotics of Visual Extravagance. 1 Drop Dead Gorgeous ; 2 Skin Deep -- Part Two: The Pleasure of the Visual (Being Gorgeous and the 'Low'). 3 Crinoline & Cupcakes ; 4 Powder Puff & Beauty Spots -- Part Three: Bitter-Sweet Poetry (Being Gorgeous and the 'High'). 5 The Paradoxical Body ; 6 The Sensual Body ; 7 Pleasure, Violence & the Sensual Spectacle ; 8 Creative Spectatorship & the Political Imagination -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Jacki 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.