Monster/Beauty
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erotic
female body
feminism
feminist
feminist theory
gender
gender roles
gender studies
human sexuality
hyper muscular women
monsters
monstrous women
nonfiction
performative art
photography
pleasure
self
sensuality
sex
sexuality
stepmothers
vampires
women
Product details
- ISBN 9780520221147
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 143 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 19 Feb 2001
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, older women, sex, and pleasure that Frueh first addressed in "Erotic Faculties". "Monster/Beauty" examines these issues using a provocative, often explicit, set of examples.Frueh admiringly looks at the bodies and mindsets of midlife female bodybuilders, rethinks the vampire, and revises our ideas about traditional models of beauty, such as Aphrodite. Above all, she boldly brings her personal experience into the text, weaving her reflections on female sensuality with contemporary theory.
These linked essays are as much a performance as they are a discussion, breaking down the barriers between the personal and the academic, and the erotic and the intellectual. Frueh writes passionately and beautifully, and the result is a much-needed exploration of beauty myths and taboos.
Joanna Frueh is Professor of Art History at the University of Nevada, Reno; author of Erotic Faculties (California, 1996) and Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective (1989); and coeditor of Picturing the Modern Amazon (2000), Feminist Art Criticism: Art, Identity, Action (1994), and Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology (1991).
