Monster/beauty : building the body of love / Joanna Frueh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frueh, Joanna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).

Body image.

Frueh, Joanna.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This daring, intensely personal 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 lush combination of autobiography, theory, photography, and poetry, this book continues to develop the ideas about the erotic, beauty, old

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Aphrodite's Garden; EROTIC WEIGHT; 1 Aphrodisia and Erotogenesis; 2 Hypermuscular Performance; 3 The Passionate Wife, the Passionate Daughter; PLEASURE AND PEDAGOGY; 4 The Professor's Body; 5 Consensual Erotics; 6 Exertions of Flesh on Flesh; 7 The Primacy of Pleasure: Leisure, Crush, the Dominatrix; 8 The Amorous Stepmother: A Pedagogical Experiment; ICONS OF PLEASURE; 9 Dressing Aphrodite; 10 Blonde Bunny Goddess; 11 Border Cowgirl; 12 Scarlet Women; 13 Sade, My Sweet, My Truffle; or, Giving a Fuck; 14 Vampiric Strategies; List of Illustrations

IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612758805

9781282758803

1282758802

9780520923904

0520923901

9781597347617

1597347612

OCLC:

475926583