Being Gorgeous Being Gorgeous

Being Gorgeous

Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2015
9 June
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
240
Pages
PUBLISHER
I.B. Tauris
SIZE
20.4
MB

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