LEADER 03189nam 2200469 450 001 9910825216803321 005 20230123200224.0 010 $a1-84888-125-8 024 7 $a10.1163/9781848881259 035 $a(CKB)4920000000126739 035 $a(OCoLC)878861715 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9781848881259 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6983446 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6983446 035 $a(EXLCZ)994920000000126739 100 $a20230123d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun| uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$a(Re)possessing beauty $epolitics, poetics, change /$fedited by Sallie McNamara 210 1$aOxford, England :$cInter-Disciplinary Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aCritical issues (Oxford, England) 311 $a90-04-37123-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material /$rSallie McNamara -- $tPretty Girls Make Graves: A Contemporary Feminist Interpretation of the Ill-Fated Beauty in Three Early Cinemas /$rKerry McElroy -- $tMask and Mascara: The Female Masquerade in Women?s Historical Romances of the 1930s and 1940s /$rSallie McNamara -- $tComplex Beauty: Oscar Wilde?s Aesthetic and Social Transformation /$rLiam Lynch -- $tThe Somatechnics of Hair Straightening: Technology, Transformation and Social Change /$rAllison Vandenberg -- $tHow Far to Beautiful? Thinness, Eating Disorders and Sexual Trauma /$rLisa Hodge -- $tConstructing Phallic Beauty: Foreskin Restoration, Genital Cutting and Circumcisionism /$rTravis Wisdom -- $tBeauty and Eroticism in Mishima?s The Temple of the Golden Pavilion /$rSabah Carrim -- $tOutlawed Beauty: The (Homo)Erotic Sacrifice in Bataille, Genet and Mishima /$rEva Bujalka -- $tAn Obsession with Beauty is a Sign of a Declining Culture /$rElizabeth Barnett. 330 $aIdeas of beauty permeate our lives in ways of which we are often unaware, yet they are indicators of identity, transgression, sartorial codes and otherness. While contemporary society sees the dominance of Western hegemonic ideals of beauty, when comparing these to ideals in different cultures at different historical periods, attention is drawn to the instability of ?beauty?. The work in this volume considers the ways individuals question, respond to, articulate reflect, challenge, modify or accept beauty within their lives, to show it can be powerful, destructive and transformative. They show that beauty is not always what it appears and can challenge common-sense preconceptions as to what is beautiful. The range of topics provide an important contribution to ongoing discussions and are testament to both the diversity and complexity of debate the concept engenders across different disciplines. 410 0$aCritical issues (Oxford, England) 606 $aAesthetics 615 0$aAesthetics. 676 $a111.85 702 $aMcNamara$b Sallie 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825216803321 996 $aRe)possessing beauty$93969350 997 $aUNINA