03189nam 2200469 450 991082521680332120230123200224.01-84888-125-810.1163/9781848881259(CKB)4920000000126739(OCoLC)878861715(nllekb)BRILL9781848881259(MiAaPQ)EBC6983446(Au-PeEL)EBL6983446(EXLCZ)99492000000012673920230123d2014 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediardacarrier(Re)possessing beauty politics, poetics, change /edited by Sallie McNamaraOxford, England :Inter-Disciplinary Press,[2014]©20141 online resourceCritical issues (Oxford, England)90-04-37123-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material /Sallie McNamara -- Pretty Girls Make Graves: A Contemporary Feminist Interpretation of the Ill-Fated Beauty in Three Early Cinemas /Kerry McElroy -- Mask and Mascara: The Female Masquerade in Women’s Historical Romances of the 1930s and 1940s /Sallie McNamara -- Complex Beauty: Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic and Social Transformation /Liam Lynch -- The Somatechnics of Hair Straightening: Technology, Transformation and Social Change /Allison Vandenberg -- How Far to Beautiful? Thinness, Eating Disorders and Sexual Trauma /Lisa Hodge -- Constructing Phallic Beauty: Foreskin Restoration, Genital Cutting and Circumcisionism /Travis Wisdom -- Beauty and Eroticism in Mishima’s The Temple of the Golden Pavilion /Sabah Carrim -- Outlawed Beauty: The (Homo)Erotic Sacrifice in Bataille, Genet and Mishima /Eva Bujalka -- An Obsession with Beauty is a Sign of a Declining Culture /Elizabeth Barnett.Ideas of beauty permeate our lives in ways of which we are often unaware, yet they are indicators of identity, transgression, sartorial codes and otherness. While contemporary society sees the dominance of Western hegemonic ideals of beauty, when comparing these to ideals in different cultures at different historical periods, attention is drawn to the instability of ‘beauty’. The work in this volume considers the ways individuals question, respond to, articulate reflect, challenge, modify or accept beauty within their lives, to show it can be powerful, destructive and transformative. They show that beauty is not always what it appears and can challenge common-sense preconceptions as to what is beautiful. The range of topics provide an important contribution to ongoing discussions and are testament to both the diversity and complexity of debate the concept engenders across different disciplines.Critical issues (Oxford, England)AestheticsAesthetics.111.85McNamara SallieMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825216803321Re)possessing beauty3969350UNINA