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Being Gorgeous: Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual

By Jacki Willson

Book information

Publisher
I.B.Tauris
Year
2015
ISBN
9780755693979, 9781780762838, 9781780762845
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
151 MB (158533982 bytes)
Pages
\228
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 23:03:58

Description

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 Carnesky's Ghost Train, Being Gorgeous demonstrates how contemporary female performers embody, critique and thoroughly relish their own representation by inappropriately re-appropriating femininity.

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