Being gorgeous : feminism, sexuality and the pleasures of the visual. / / Jacki Willson
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| Autore: |
Willson Jacki
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| Titolo: |
Being gorgeous : feminism, sexuality and the pleasures of the visual. / / Jacki Willson
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| Pubblicazione: | London [England] : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2015 |
| [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.42 |
| Soggetto topico: | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) |
| Femininity | |
| Sex role | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Being gorgeous |
| ISBN: | 0-85773-999-9 |
| 0-7556-9397-3 | |
| 1-78076-284-4 | |
| 0-85772-691-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797552603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
International library of cultural studies ; ; 27.