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This anthology connects recent debates in feminist theory to debates in traditional philosophical aesthetics. Among the topics covered are: gender totemism; the oppositional gaze in terms of the black female spectator; the interweaving of feminist frameworks; and the image of women in film.

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Author:   Peggy Z. Brand ,  Carolyn Korsmeyer ,  Arthur Coleman Danto
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780271013404

ISBN 10:   0271013400
Pages:   504
Publication Date:   30 December 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Contents Foreword by Arthur C. Danto Introduction: Aesthetics and Its Traditions/Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer Part I 1. Beautiful and Sublime: ""Gender Totemism"" in the Constitution of Art/Paul Mattick, Jr. 2. Gendered Concepts and Hume's Standard of Taste/Carolyn Korsmeyer 3. Intensity and Its Audiences: Toward a Feminist Perspective on the Kantian Sublime/Timothy Gould 4. Stages on Kant's Way: Aesthetics, Morality, and the Gendered Sublime/Christine Battersby Select Bibliography to Part I Part II 5. Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers, and the Gendered Spectator: The ""New"" Aesthetics/Mary Devereaux 6. The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators/bell hooks 7. A History of Music/Renée Lorraine Select Bibliography to Part II Part III 8. ""Who is Speaking?"" Of Nation, Community, and First-Person Interviews/Trinh T. Minh-ha 9. Interweaving Feminist Frameworks/Elizabeth Ann Dobie 10. Monologues from ""Four Intruders Plus Alarm Systems"" and ""Safe""/Adrian Piper 11. Revising the Aesthetic-Nonaesthetic Distinction: The Aesthetic Value of Activist Art/Peggy Zeglin Brand Select Bibliography to Part III Part IV 12. Has Her(oine's) Time Now Come?/Anita Silvers 13. Feminist Art History and De Facto Significance/Susan L. Feagin 14. Leonardo da Vinci and Creative Female Nature/Mary D. Garrard 15. Mothers and Daughters: Ancient and Modern Myths/Ellen Handler Spitz 16. The Image of Women in Film: A Defense of a Paradigm/Noel Carroll Select Bibliography to Part IV Part V 17. Analytic Aesthetics and Feminist Aesthetics: Neither/Nor?/Joanne B. Waugh 18. Reconciling Analytic and Feminist Philosophy and Aesthetics/Joseph Margolis 19. Why Feminism Doesn't Need an Aesthetic (And Why It Can't Ignore Aesthetics)/Rita Felski 20. The Role of Feminist Aesthetics in Feminist Theory/Hilde Hein Select Bibliography to Part V Contributors Index"

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Peg Brand Weiser is Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and Associate Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. She is the editor of Beauty Matters and Beauty Unlimited and served as the first chair of the Feminist Caucus Committee of the American Society for Aesthetics. Carolyn Korsmeyer is Research Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo and a former president of the American Society for Aesthetics. Her books include Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy; Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction; Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics; and Things: In Touch with the Past. She is a former president of the American Society for Aesthetics. 

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