Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (931 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520221141 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 383 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"gorgeous theory" according to A Customer. Joanna Frueh's Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love was life changing for me, and I literally shook with feeling as I read the introduction. I highly recommend this book. I have never read hotter theory! She engages with the theme of beauty not simply to critique or invert, but instead embraces, explodes, examines and burrows within the veins of beauty to open
Above all, she boldly brings her personal experience into the text, weaving her reflections on female sensuality with contemporary theory.These linked essays are as much a performance as they are a discussion, breaking down the barriers between the personal and the academic, and the erotic and the intellectual. Frueh writes passionately and beautifully, and the result is a much-needed exploration of beauty myths and taboos.. Monster/Beauty examines these issues using a provocative, often explicit, set of examples. Frueh admiringly looks at the bodies and mindsets of midlife female bodybuilders, rethinks the vampire, and revises our ideas about traditional models of beauty, such as Aphrodite. 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. 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. A lush combination of autobiography, theory, photography, and poetry, this book continues to develop the ideas about the erotic, beauty, older women, sex, and pleasure that Frueh first addressed in Erotic Faculties
Sensuality and bodily decoration—aesthetic and erotic self-creation--have continued to fascinate and enlighten me, and today, as a midlife woman, they give me great pleasure. I remember the delicious way that my feet slid forward in her high heels as I’d do my best to sashay, and the excitement of seeing myself in her scarlet lipstick and nail polish. . The book is more than an antidote to people’s discontent and self-rejection. I loved my own corporeality and spirit and the sensations and appearance of dressing them up. I was thrilled when a friend of mine said to me that Monster/Beauty is "revolutionary," "a manifesto." I would love for it to work that way for all of its readers. That pleasure motivated me to write Monste