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His other half : men looking at women through art

Title: His other half : men looking at women through art / Wendy Lesser.
Author: Lesser, Wendy.
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991.

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294 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Wendy Lesser counters the reigning belief that male artists inevitably misrepresent women. She builds this case through inquiry into many unexpected and delightfully germane subjects - Marilyn Monroe's walk, for instance, or the dwarf manicurist Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield, or the shoulder blades of Degas's bathers. Placing such particulars within the framework of Plato's myth of the divided beings and psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism, Lesser sets before us an art that responds to and even attempts to overcome division.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-277) and index.

Contents

Divided selves -- Mothers -- Degas's nudes -- Gissing's even-handed oddness -- Henry James and the battle of the sexes -- Hitchcock's couples -- Randall Jarrell's sinister beings -- Beaton's ladies -- The disembodied body of Marilyn Monroe -- Stanwyck -- Closing the circle.

ISBN

0674392108
9780674392106

LCCN

90037165

OCLC

ocm21524560
21524560
SCSB-9126854

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library