Female Beauty in Art

History, Feminism, Women Artists
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4438-5339-2
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten

In Female Beauty in Art, a series of essays examine the presence and role of female beauty in art, history and culture, and consider the ways in which beauty can function as a discourse of female identity. As a concept, female beauty is unique in that it can contain compelling imbrications of gender ideologies, images, relations, cultural constructions and modes of interaction between persons and the institutions that define their lives. Thus, female beauty can provide proliferating methods through which female identity is examined and analyzed. The book builds upon those ideas in a variety of areas in order to consider how the discourse of beauty can generate empowering insights into womanhood, female destiny and female identity.

Female Beauty in Art is an invaluable resource for students and academics in the fields of literature, history, cultural and gender studies, rigorously engaging with female beauty’s operation in discursive practices and cultural representations across disciplines and fields.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ioannou, Maria

Kyriakidou, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Ioannou is a Lecturer in Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Cyprus. Her PhD concentrated on the function of female beauty in the literature and culture of nineteenth century Britain, and her publications focus on femininity and identity in Victorian novels, fashion and art. At the same time, her research also concerns wider gender matters such as eating disorders, handicrafts and the multiple ways in which domesticity and femininity articulate feministic messages and themes. She is currently working on spectacular beauty and the subject of marriage in the Victorian novel.

Maria Kyriakidou is an Associate Professor at the American College of Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she received her BA degree. She earned her Master’s in Anthropology from George Washington University, USA, and her PhD in Modern Greek Studies from King’s College, University of London. Her doctoral dissertation explored the history of the Greek feminist movement. She has presented her research at a number of international conferences, and has published articles on gender studies and history in Greek and international scientific journals, as well as a book on women’s participation in local government in Greece. Her research interests include gender studies, Greek history, politics and cultural studies.