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Being gorgeous :

(Number (ISBN

1780762836

(Number (ISBN

1780762844

(Number (ISBN

9781780762838

(Number (ISBN

9781780762845

Erroneous ISBN

9780857739995

Title Proper

Being gorgeous :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

feminism, sexuality and the pleasures of the visual /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jacki Willson.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

I.B. Tauris,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

230 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, portraits ;

Dimensions

22 cm.

Series Title

International library of cultural studies ;

Volume Designation

27

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: Being gorgeous and feminism -- Part I: Sexuality, gender and the art and erotics of visual extravagance. Drop dead gorgeous -- Skin deep -- Part II: The pleasure of the visual (being gorgeous and 'low'). Crinoline and cupcakes : dangerous identities -- Powder puffs and beauty spots : spectacular objecthood -- Part III: Bitter/sweet poetry (being gorgeous and the 'high'). The paradoxical body -- The sexual body -- Part IV: A rebellion of the senses. Pleasure, violence and the sensual spectacle -- Creative spectatorship and the political imagination -- Conclusion.

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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. 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 from our current 'low' and 'high' culture, including Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, Matthew Barney, Naked Girls Reading, 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. This is a protest through play - a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty-first century, where women are playing up a clichéd spectacle in order to wrest back control over their sensual sexual selves as subject and as image -- Book Jacket.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

Femininity.

Sex role.

Darstellende Künstlerin.

Exotismus.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

Femininity.

Feminism.

Geschlechterrolle.

Performancekünstlerin.

Sex role.

Sinnlichkeit.

Visuelle Kommunikation.

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Edition

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Book number

Book number

Willson, Jacki

Date of Transaction

20200823053109.0

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