Foreword: Carolyn Korsmeyer
Introduction: Peg Zeglin Brand
Part I. Revising the Concept of Beauty: Laying the
Groundwork
1. Arthur Danto and the Problem of Beauty Noël Carroll
2. Savages, Wild Men, Monstrous Races: The Social Construction of
Race in the Early Modern Era Gregory Velazco y Trianosky
3. Beauty's Relational Labor Monique Roelofs
4. Queer Beauty: Winckelmann and Kant on the Vicissitudes of the
Ideal Whitney Davis
5. Worldwide Women Eleanor Heartney
Part II. Standards of Beauty
6. Jenny Saville Remakes the Female Nude—Feminist Reflections on
the State of the Art
Diana Tietjens Meyers
7. Indigenous Beauty Phoebe M. Farris
8. Is Medical Aesthetics Really Medical? Mary Devereaux
9. The Bronze Age Revisited: The Aesthetics of Sun Tanning Jo Ellen
Jacobs
10. ¿Tienes Culo? How to Look at Vida Guerra Karina Céspedes and
Paul C. Taylor
11. Beauty between Disability and Gender: Frida Kahlo in Paper
Dolls Fedwa Malti-Douglas
Part III. The Body in Performance
12. Beauty, Youth, and the Balinese Legong Dance Stephen Davies
13. Bollywood and the Feminine: Hinduism and Images of Womanhood
Jane Duran
14. Seductive Shift: A Review of "The Most Beautiful Woman in
Gucha" Valerie Sullivan Fuchs
15. Feminist Art, Content and Beauty Keith Lehrer
16. ORLAN Revisited: Disembodied Virtual Hybrid Beauty Peg Zeglin
Brand
Part IV. Beauty and the State
17. Beauty Wars: The Struggle over Female Modesty in the
Contemporary Middle East and North Africa Allen Douglas and Fedwa
Malti-Douglas
18. Orientalism Inside/Out: The Art of Soody Sharifi Cynthia
Freeland
19. Beauty and the State: Female Bodies as State Apparatus and
Recent Beauty Discourses in China Eva Kit Wah Man
20. Gendered Bodies in Contemporary Chinese Art Mary Wiseman
Contributors
Index
The meanings and manifestations of beautifying the human body
Peg Brand Weiser is Adjunct Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and Emerita Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. She is editor of Beauty Matters and (with Carolyn Korsmeyer) Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics, and author of numerous essays in feminist aesthetics dealing with women's art, creativity, beauty standards and sports. She served as the first Chair of the Feminist Caucus Committee of the American Society for Aesthetics and is the former First Lady of Indiana University (1994-2002).
The cultural, ethnic, and geographical diversity of the artistic
practices is integral to the examination of the many beauties and
provides the operating premise of the book. The diversity
represented in this volume whether in discourse style or topic is
not an add-on; instead, it is the organizing principle. The book is
designed the way I wish more courses in philosophy were designed,
with the idea that the history of philosophy is just one among many
important sources of beauty's knowledge.72.1 Winter 2014
*Journal Aesthetics and Art Criticism*
The title of the anthology reflects its worthy call to arms: let's
move past traditional theories of beauty, move from a local to a
global view, and engage in more (and different) dialogs on feminist
perspectives on beauty.
*Hypatia*
This collection meets a need for a feminist aesthetics text which
bridges aesthetic theory, art and popular culture, and acknowledges
the evolving character of standards of beauty and the many meanings
of feminism around the globe.36.4 Dec. 2013
*Teaching Philosophy*
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