Body Aesthetics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 July 2016
- ISBN 9780198716778
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages350 pages
- Size 236x165x23 mm
- Weight 650 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 34 illustrations, 32 of them halftones 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
The body is a rich object for aesthetic inquiry. We aesthetically assess both our own bodies and those of others, and our felt bodily experiences--as we eat, have sex, and engage in other everyday activities--have aesthetic qualities. The body, whether depicted or actively performing, features centrally in aesthetic experiences of visual art, theatre, dance and sports.
Body aesthetics can be a source of delight for both the subject and the object of the gaze. But aesthetic consideration of bodies also raises acute ethical questions: the body is deeply intertwined with one's identity and sense of self, and aesthetic assessment of bodies can perpetuate oppression based on race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, size, and disability. Artistic and media representations shape how we see and engage with bodies, with consequences both personal and political.
This volume contains sixteen original essays by contributors in philosophy, sociology, dance, disability theory, critical race studies, feminist theory, medicine, and law. Contributors take on bodily beauty, sexual attractiveness, the role of images in power relations, the distinct aesthetics of disabled bodies, the construction of national identity, the creation of compassion through bodily presence, the role of bodily style in moral comportment, and the somatic aesthetics of racialized police violence.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Why Body Aesthetics?
I: Representation
Black Silhouettes on White Walls: Kara Walker's Magic Lantern
Bodily Taste and Fat Oppression
From 'Little Brown Brothers' to 'Queer Asian Wives': Constructing the Asian Male Body
II: Look
Appearance as a Feminist Issue
A Tale of Two Olympians--Beauty, 'Race,' Nation
The Merrickites
And Everything Nice
III: Performance
In/Visible: Disabled Bodies on the Stage
Live, Body-Based Performance: An Account from the Field
Aesthetic Effortlessness
Misleading Aesthetic Norms of Beauty: Perceptual Sexism in Elite Women's Sports
IV: Practice
Body Aesthetics and the Cultivation of Moral Virtues
White Embodied Gazing, the Black Body as Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Un- Suturing
Somaesthetics and the Fine Art of Eating
Sexual Desire, Inequality, and the Possibility of Transformation
Sex Objects and Sexy Subjects: A Feminist Reclamation of Sexiness
