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Being Gorgeous: Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual
Jacki Willson
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Description for Being Gorgeous: Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual
Paperback. How flamboyance, dress and performance presents a feminist politics for the twenty-first century Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFK; JFSJ; JHBK5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 314.
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. 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 ... Read more
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. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780762845
SKU
V9781780762845
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About Jacki Willson
Jacki Willson is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins University of the Arts, London. She is the author of The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque (I.B. Tauris, 2008).
Reviews for Being Gorgeous: Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual
'... important, timely and provocative' - Debra Ferreday, author of Online Belongings; 'The author has raised an important point overall, especially with regards to how experimenting with visual aesthetics can empower women to throw off the tropes imposed by traditional notions of femininity and its associated stereotypes...a thought-provoking read.' - Katherine Williams, LSE Review of Books