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

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-firs...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Willson, Jacki
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
Colección:International library of cultural studies ; 27.
Temas:
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Femininity.
Sex role.
Beauté féminine (Esthétique)
Féminité.
Rôle selon le sexe.
sex role.
Feminism & feminist theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Femininity
Sex role
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Being an Art Object
  • Part I
  • 1
  • Exquisite Surfaces
  • Eye Candy
  • 2
  • Naked Girls
  • To Be Looked At23
  • Part II
  • 3
  • Anarchic Femininities
  • Creative Sexpots
  • 4
  • Being an Object1
  • Subcultural Models
  • Part III
  • 5
  • Fashion and Art
  • Glitter and Meat
  • 6
  • Sex
  • Masturbation
  • Part IV
  • 7
  • Crumbling Bath Bombs and Flaking Nail Varnish
  • Toxic Flowers and Barbed Flesh
  • 8
  • Masquerade Balls and the 'Green Fairy'
  • The Mind as Magical Fairground
  • Conclusion
  • Now you see me ...
  • ... And now you don't
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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