Monster/Beauty [[electronic resource] ] : Building the Body of Love
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.4 |
| 701.17 | |
| 704.9424 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Body image |
| Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) | |
| Frueh, Joanna | |
| Women in art | |
| Gender & Ethnic Studies | |
| Social Sciences | |
| Gender Studies & Sexuality | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Monster |
| ISBN: | 1-282-75880-2 |
| 9786612758805 | |
| 0-520-92390-1 | |
| 1-59734-761-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454770703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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