| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 339 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Aphrodite's Garden; Aphrodisia and Erotogenesis; Hypermuscular Performance; The Passionate Wife, the Passionate Daughter; The Professor's Body; Consensual Erotics; Exertions of Flesh on Flesh; The Primacy of Pleasure; The Amorous Stepmother: A Pedagogical Experiment; Dressing Aphrodite; Blonde Bunny Goddess; Border Cowgirl; Scarlet Women; Sade, My Sweet, My Truffle; or, Giving a Fuck; Vampiric Strategies; List of Illustrations; Index |
| Summary |
"This book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life. Bringing together her varied experiences as a poet, art historian, bodybuilder, and noted performance artist, Joanna Frueh shows us how to move beyond society's equation of youth with beauty toward an aesthetic for the fully erotic human being." "A combination of autobiography, theory, photography, and poetry, this book continues to develop the ideas about the erotic, beauty, older women, sex, and pleasure that Frueh first addressed in Erotic Faculties." "Monster/Beauty examines these issues using a provocative, often explicit, set of examples. Frueh admiringly looks at the bodies and mindsets of midlife female bodybuilders, rethinks the vampire, and revises our ideas about traditional models of beauty, such as Aphrodite. Above all, she brings her personal experience into the text, weaving her reflections on female sensuality with contemporary theory." "These linked essays are as much a performance as they are a discussion, breaking down the barriers between the personal and the academic, and the erotic and the intellectual. Frueh writes passionately and beautifully, and the result is a much-needed exploration of beauty myths and taboos."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Frueh, Joanna
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| SUBJECT |
Frueh, Joanna fast |
| Subject |
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
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Body image.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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ART / General
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Body image
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
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Beauté féminine (esthétique)
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Beauté corporelle.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520923904 |
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0520923901 |
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0585388849 |
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9780585388847 |
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1597347612 |
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9781597347617 |
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1282758802 |
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9781282758803 |
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9786612758805 |
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6612758805 |
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