Monster/Beauty - Building the Body of Love

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-520-22114-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 353 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frueh, Joanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Aphrodite's Garden
Photographs by Russell Dudley and Joanna Frueh

EROTIC WEIGHT
1. Aphrodisia and Erotogenesis
2. Hypermuscular Performance
3. The Passionate Wife, the Passionate Daughter
PLEASURE AND PEDAGOGY
4. The Professor's Body
5. Consensual Erotics
6. Exertions of Flesh on Flesh
7. The Primacy of Pleasure: Leisure, Crush, the Dominatrix
8. The Amorous Stepmother: A Pedagogical Experiment
ICONS OF PLEASURE
9. Dressing Aphrodite
10. Blonde Bunny Goddess
11. Border Cowgirl
12. Scarlet Women
13. Sade, My Sweet, My Truffle; or, Giving a Fuck
14. Vampiric Strategies

List of Illustrations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).