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Being gorgeous : Feminism, sexuality and the pleasures of the visual
- Title
- Being gorgeous : Feminism, sexuality and the pleasures of the visual / Jacki Willson.
- Author
- Willson, Jacki.
- Publication
- London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. 2015.
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Details
- Description
- 256 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- International Library of Cultural Studies ; 27
- Uniform Title
- International library of cultural studies ; 27.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-3587
- ISBN
- 9781780762838
- 1780762836
- 9781780762845
- 1780762844
- OCLC
- 909250985
- Author
- Willson, Jacki.
- Title
- Being gorgeous : Feminism, sexuality and the pleasures of the visual / Jacki Willson.
- Imprint
- London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- International Library of Cultural Studies ; 27International library of cultural studies ; 27.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-3587