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Informationen zum Autor Morna Laing is Assistant Professor in Fashion Studies at The New School, Parsons Paris, France. She is the co-editor, with Jacki Willson, of Revisiting the Gaze: The Fashioned Body and the Politics of Looking (Bloomsbury, 2020). Zusammenfassung In 1975 Laura Mulvey published her seminal essay on the male gaze, ushering in a new era in understanding the politics and theory of looking at the female body. Since then, feminist thinking has expanded upon and revised Mulvey’s theory and much of the Western world has seen a resurgence in feminist activism as well as the rise of neoliberalism and shifts in digital culture and (self-)representation. For the first time, this book addresses what it means to look at the fashioned female body in this radical new landscape. In chapters exploring the fashioned body within contexts such as queerness, veiling, blackness, pregnancy, fatness, and criminality, Revisiting the Gaze addresses intersectional debates in feminism and re-evaluates the concept of the gaze in light of recent social and political changes. With an interdisciplinary approach, bridging fashion and fine art, this book opens the door to discussions about the male gaze and the fashioned body. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1. Introduction - Morna Laing and Jacki Willson Part I - Looking: The Optic and the Haptic2. Double Acts: Oscillating Between Optical and Haptic Visuality in a Digital Age - Maria Walsh and Mo Throp 3. The Ambient Gaze: Sensory Atmosphere and the Dressed Body - Sara Chong Kwan 4. The Veiled Body: The Alienated system of ‘Looking’ in Post-revolutionary Iran (1979-present) - Azadeh Fatehrad Part II - Looking Through Neoliberalism5. Becoming in the Eyes of Others: The Relational Gaze in Boudoir Photography - Ilya Parkins 6. The Dissecting Gaze: Fashioned Bodies on Social Networking Sites - Dawn Woolley 7. Making Lemonade?: Beyoncé’s Pregnancies and the Postfeminist Media Gaze - Maureen BrewsterPart III - Looking at the 'Other'8. Looking Fat in a Slender World: The Dialectic of Seeing and Becoming in Jen Davis’ Eleven Years - Lauren Downing Peters 9. Re-reading the Queer Female Gaze in the 1990s: Spectatorship, Fashion and the Duality of Identification and Desire - Catherine Baker 10. Killer Looks: Marlene McCarty’s Murder Girls - Rosa Nogués Index...
