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Informationen zum Autor edited by Peg Zeglin Brand, with contributions by Eleanor Heartney, foreword by Carolyn Korsmeyer, with contributions by Noël Carroll, Gregory Velazco y Trianosky, Monique Roelofs, Whitney Davis, Diana Tietjens Meyers, Phoebe Farris, Mary Devereaux, Jo Ellen Jacobs, Karina Céspedes, Paul C. Taylor, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Stephen Davies, Jane M. Duran, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Keith Lehrer, Allen Douglas, Cynthia A. Freeland, Eva Kit Wah Man, Mary Bittner Wiseman Klappentext Peg Zeglin Brand is an artist, Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University¿Indianapolis), and Adjunct Instructor in the University of Oregon School of Law Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center and the UO Robert D. Clark Honors College. She is the author of numerous articles in feminist philosophy and aesthetics as well as the editor of Beauty Matters (IUP, 2000) and co-editor with Carolyn Korsmeyer of Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics. Zusammenfassung Explores the history of bodily beautification Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Carolyn Korsmeyer Introduction: Peg Zeglin Brand Part I. Revising the Concept of Beauty: Laying the Groundwork 1. Arthur Danto and the Problem of Beauty Noël Carroll 2. Savages, Wild Men, Monstrous Races: The Social Construction of Race in the Early Modern Era Gregory Velazco y Trianosky 3. Beauty's Relational Labor Monique Roelofs 4. Queer Beauty: Winckelmann and Kant on the Vicissitudes of the Ideal Whitney Davis 5. Worldwide Women Eleanor Heartney Part II. Standards of Beauty 6. Jenny Saville Remakes the Female Nude-Feminist Reflections on the State of the Art Diana Tietjens Meyers 7. Indigenous Beauty Phoebe M. Farris 8. Is Medical Aesthetics Really Medical? Mary Devereaux 9. The Bronze Age Revisited: The Aesthetics of Sun Tanning Jo Ellen Jacobs 10. ¿Tienes Culo? How to Look at Vida Guerra Karina Céspedes and Paul C. Taylor 11. Beauty between Disability and Gender: Frida Kahlo in Paper Dolls Fedwa Malti-Douglas Part III. The Body in Performance 12. Beauty, Youth, and the Balinese Legong Dance Stephen Davies 13. Bollywood and the Feminine: Hinduism and Images of Womanhood Jane Duran 14. Seductive Shift: A Review of "The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha" Valerie Sullivan Fuchs 15. Feminist Art, Content and Beauty Keith Lehrer 16. ORLAN Revisited: Disembodied Virtual Hybrid Beauty Peg Zeglin Brand Part IV. Beauty and the State 17. Beauty Wars: The Struggle over Female Modesty in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa Allen Douglas and Fedwa Malti-Douglas 18. Orientalism Inside/Out: The Art of Soody Sharifi Cynthia Freeland 19. Beauty and the State: Female Bodies as State Apparatus and Recent Beauty Discourses in China Eva Kit Wah Man 20. Gendered Bodies in Contemporary Chinese Art Mary Wiseman Contributors Index ...
