Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Peggy Zeglin Brand is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University; she has published various essays on philosophy of art and on artworks by women.
Carolyn Korsmeyer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York-Buffalo and is coauthor of Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe (1985) and co-editor (with Hilde Hein) of Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective (1993).
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Contributors
Index