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Revisiting the gaze : the fashioned body and the politics of looking

Title
Revisiting the gaze : the fashioned body and the politics of looking / edited by Morna Laing and Jacki Willson.
Publication
London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

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Additional Authors
  • Laing, Morna
  • Willson, Jacki
  • Walsh, Maria
  • Throp, Mo
  • Fatehrad, Azadeh
  • Parkins, Ilya
  • Peters, Lauren Downing
  • Baker, Catherine, 1982-
  • Woolley, Dawn
  • Chong Kwan, Sara
  • Brewster, Maureen
  • Nogués, Rosa
Description
xi, 262 pages : illustrations (black and white); 22 cm.
Summary
"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." -- Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
Dress cultures
Uniform Title
Dress cultures.
Subject
  • Mulvey, Laura
  • Feminism
  • Women's clothing > Social aspects
  • Women > Social conditions
  • Beauty, Personal > Social aspects
  • Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
  • Fashion > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction / Morna Laing and Jacki Willson -- Part I. Looking : the optic and the haptic -- 2. 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) / Azadeh Fatehrad -- Part II. Looking through neoliberalism -- 5. 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 Brewster -- Part 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
Call Number
JQD 21-105
ISBN
  • 9781350154216
  • 1350154210
OCLC
1158098472
Title
Revisiting the gaze : the fashioned body and the politics of looking / edited by Morna Laing and Jacki Willson.
Publisher
London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Dress cultures
Dress cultures.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Laing, Morna, editor.
Willson, Jacki, editor.
Walsh, Maria, writer of supplementary textual content.
Throp, Mo, writer of supplementary textual content.
Fatehrad, Azadeh, writer of supplementary textual content.
Parkins, Ilya, writer of supplementary textual content.
Peters, Lauren Downing, writer of supplementary textual content.
Baker, Catherine, 1982- writer of supplementary textual content.
Woolley, Dawn, writer of supplementary textual content.
Chong Kwan, Sara, writer of supplementary textual content.
Brewster, Maureen, writer of supplementary textual content.
Nogués, Rosa, writer of supplementary textual content.
Other Form:
Electronic version: Revisiting the gaze. London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020 9781350154223 (OCoLC)1162185060
Research Call Number
JQD 21-105
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