This volume contains sixteen original essays on the aesthetics of the body and bodily experience. Contributors in philosophy, sociology, dance, disability theory, race studies, feminist theory, medicine, and law explore topics from beauty and sexual attractiveness to national identity and the somatic aesthetics of racialized police violence.
This volume contains sixteen original essays on the aesthetics of the body and bodily experience. Contributors in philosophy, sociology, dance, disability theory, race studies, feminist theory, medicine, and law explore topics from beauty and sexual attractiveness to national identity and the somatic aesthetics of racialized police violence.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sherri Irvin is Co-Director of the Center for Social Justice and Presidential Research Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She works on the philosophy of contemporary art, feminist aesthetics, the nature of aesthetic experience, and the connection of aesthetics to social justice. Her book Immaterial: A Philosophy of Contemporary Art is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: Why Body Aesthetics? * I: Representation * 1: Maria del Guadalupe Davidson: Black Silhouettes on White Walls: Kara Walker's Magic Lantern * 2: A. W. Eaton: Bodily Taste and Fat Oppression * 3: C. Winter Han: From 'Little Brown Brothers' to 'Queer Asian Wives': Constructing the Asian Male Body * II: Look * 4: Deborah L. Rhode: Appearance as a Feminist Issue * 5: Shirley Anne Tate: A Tale of Two Olympians--Beauty, 'Race,' Nation * 6: Glenn Parsons: The Merrickites * 7: Stephen Davies: And Everything Nice * III: Performance * 8: Tobin Siebers: In/Visible: Disabled Bodies on the Stage * 9: Jill Sigman: Live, Body-Based Performance: An Account from the Field * 10: Barbara Gail Montero: Aesthetic Effortlessness * 11: Peg Brand Weiser and Edward B. Weiser: Misleading Aesthetic Norms of Beauty: Perceptual Sexism in Elite Women's Sports * IV: Practice * 12: Yuriko Saito: Body Aesthetics and the Cultivation of Moral Virtues * 13: George Yancy: White Embodied Gazing, the Black Body as Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Un- Suturing * 14: Richard Shusterman: Somaesthetics and the Fine Art of Eating * 15: Ann J. Cahill: Sexual Desire, Inequality, and the Possibility of Transformation * 16: Sheila Lintott and Sherri Irvin: Sex Objects and Sexy Subjects: A Feminist Reclamation of Sexiness
* Introduction: Why Body Aesthetics? * I: Representation * 1: Maria del Guadalupe Davidson: Black Silhouettes on White Walls: Kara Walker's Magic Lantern * 2: A. W. Eaton: Bodily Taste and Fat Oppression * 3: C. Winter Han: From 'Little Brown Brothers' to 'Queer Asian Wives': Constructing the Asian Male Body * II: Look * 4: Deborah L. Rhode: Appearance as a Feminist Issue * 5: Shirley Anne Tate: A Tale of Two Olympians--Beauty, 'Race,' Nation * 6: Glenn Parsons: The Merrickites * 7: Stephen Davies: And Everything Nice * III: Performance * 8: Tobin Siebers: In/Visible: Disabled Bodies on the Stage * 9: Jill Sigman: Live, Body-Based Performance: An Account from the Field * 10: Barbara Gail Montero: Aesthetic Effortlessness * 11: Peg Brand Weiser and Edward B. Weiser: Misleading Aesthetic Norms of Beauty: Perceptual Sexism in Elite Women's Sports * IV: Practice * 12: Yuriko Saito: Body Aesthetics and the Cultivation of Moral Virtues * 13: George Yancy: White Embodied Gazing, the Black Body as Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Un- Suturing * 14: Richard Shusterman: Somaesthetics and the Fine Art of Eating * 15: Ann J. Cahill: Sexual Desire, Inequality, and the Possibility of Transformation * 16: Sheila Lintott and Sherri Irvin: Sex Objects and Sexy Subjects: A Feminist Reclamation of Sexiness
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