The Female Body In The Looking Glass

Author : Basia Sliwinska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1350988677

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The Female Body in the Looking-glass by Basia Sliwinska Pdf

In his theory of the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan argued that the female body is defined by its lack of male attributes. Within this framework, he described female sexuality primarily as an absence, and assumed female subordination to the male gaze. However, what happens if one follows Jean Baudrillard's advice to swallow the mirror and go through the looking-glass to explore the reflections and realities that we encounter in the cultural mirror, which reflects the culture in question: its norms, ideals and values? What if the beautiful is inverted and becomes ugly; and the ugly is considered beautiful or shape-shifts into something conventionally thought of as beautiful? These are the fundamental questions that Basia Sliwinska poses in this important new enquiry into gender identity and the politics of vision in contemporary women's art. Through an innovative discussion of the mirror as a metaphor, Sliwinska reveals how the post-1989 practices of woman artists from both sides of the former Iron Curtain - such as Joanna Rajkowska, Marina Abramović, Boryana Rossa, Natalia LL and Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkácová - go beyond gender binaries and instead embrace otherness and difference by playing with visual tropes of femininity. Their provocative works offer alternative representations of the female body to those seen in the cultural mirror. Their art challenges and deconstructs patriarchal representations of the social and cultural 'other', associated with visual tropes of femininity such as Alice in Wonderland, Venus and Medusa. The Female Body in the Looking-Glass makes a refreshing, radical intervention into art theory and cultural studies by offering new theoretical concepts such as the mirror and genderland (inspired by Alice's adventures in Wonderland) as critical tools with which we can analyse and explain recent developments in women's art.--dust-jacket.

Author : Basia Sliwinska
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786720085

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The Female Body in the Looking-Glass by Basia Sliwinska Pdf

In his theory of the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan argued that the female body is defined by its lack of male attributes. Within this framework, he described female sexuality primarily as an absence, and assumed female subordination to the male gaze. However, what happens if one follows Jean Baudrillard's advice to 'swallow the mirror' and go through the 'looking-glass' to explore the reflections and realities that we encounter in the cultural mirror, which reflects the culture in question: its norms, ideals and values? What if the beautiful is inverted and becomes ugly; and the ugly is considered beautiful or shape-shifts into something conventionally thought of as beautiful? These are the fundamental questions that Basia Sliwinska poses in this important new enquiry into gender identity and the politics of vision in contemporary women's art.Through an innovative discussion of the mirror as a metaphor, Sliwinska reveals how the post-1989 practices of woman artists from both sides of the former Iron Curtain - such as Joanna Rajkowska, Marina Abramovic, Boryana Rossa, Natalia LL and Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova - go beyond gender binaries and instead embrace otherness and difference by playing with visual tropes of femininity. Their provocative works offer alternative representations of the female body to those seen in the cultural mirror. Their art challenges and deconstructs patriarchal representations of the social and cultural 'other', associated with visual tropes of femininity such as Alice in Wonderland, Venus and Medusa. The Female Body in the Looking-Glass makes a refreshing, radical intervention into art theory and cultural studies by offering new theoretical concepts such as 'the mirror' and 'genderland' (inspired by Alice's adventures in Wonderland) as critical tools with which we can analyse and explain recent developments in women's art.

Author : Sarah K. Rich
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0911209603

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Through the Looking Glass by Sarah K. Rich Pdf

Through the Looking Glass provides readers with an informative record of the exhibition of self-portraits by Ana Mendieta, Carrie Mae Weems, and other leading women artists, held in 2003 at the Palmer Museum of Art as part of the Women's Self-Representation Project at The Pennsylvania State University. Fully illustrated, this catalogue enables readers to revisit the provocative juxtaposition of Yayoi Kusama's Multi-Fabrics and Alba d'Urbano's Couture, or Martha Rosler's Semiotics of the Kitchen and several of Cindy Sherman's famed Film Stills. An essay by Sarah Rich addresses important questions about women's use of self-portraiture. How, for example, does self-representation by women engage with narcissism, a long-time trait long ascribed to the stereotypical &"woman&"? To what extent is gender a necessary element in women's self-portraiture?

Author : Carmen Birkle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017598751

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Women's Stories of the Looking Glass by Carmen Birkle Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781904710158

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The Horrid Looking Glass: Reflections on Monstrosity by Anonim Pdf

From the fictional world of vampires, zombies, and invaders from other worlds, to the very real world of revolutionary France and in between, the nature of the monster encompasses the very quality that makes them so believable - that which we perceive as 'other'. While there is a commonality in this otherness, the monster lurking in the shadows, concealed in darkness or conjured with a few lines from a horror novel suggests the monster as one onto which we are free to project the most distorted and un-human features. In each chapter of this volume, you will discover that the way in which we project what is monstrous is not a singular other but is in fact a part of our own self-identity. The greatest horror of the monster is not that it stands apart, but that once we pull it from the shadow of our own projected imagination we discover that that the monster we fear is also bound to our own mirror image. To look at the monster, to name that which must never be named, is to look upon a reflection and embrace a part of our nature we do not wish to see.

Author : Gili Hammer
Publisher : Corporealities: Discourses of
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472054282

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Blindness Through the Looking Glass by Gili Hammer Pdf

Challenges visuality as the dominant mode through which we understand gender, social performance, and visual culture

Author : Eva Sallis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136817526

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Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass by Eva Sallis Pdf

The Thousand and One Nights was reborn into an alien environment in 1704, its signs being received in a radically different way from their original meanings. Works of literature change as people and cultures who read them change. This study explores the Nights with reference to this view of literature.

Author : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317093916

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Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas Pdf

Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that depart from mainstream realism, from fairy tales by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Juliana Horatia Ewing, and Jean Ingelow, to sensation novels by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and Charles Dickens. Feminine representation, Talairach-Vielmas argues, is actually presented in a hyper-realistic way in such anti-realistic genres as children's literature and sensation fiction. In fact, it is precisely the clash between fantasy and reality that enables the narratives to interrogate the real and re-create a new type of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to contain the female body. In her exploration of the female body and its representations, Talairach-Vielmas examines how Victorian fantasies and sensation novels deconstruct and reconstruct femininity; she focuses in particular on the links between the female characters and consumerism, and shows how these serve to illuminate the tensions underlying the representation of the Victorian ideal.

Author : Jenijoy La Belle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801497043

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Herself Beheld by Jenijoy La Belle Pdf

What happenes when a woman looks into a mirror? Does she see her face or does she see herself? Jenijoy La Belle finds that women--both in literature and in life--interact with their reflected images for reasons that far transcend the gratification of vanity. In this thought-provoking account of the role played by the mirror in women's self-conceptions, La Belle focuses attention on literature of the last two hundred years in which a woman confronts her looking glass, and through her perception of how she looks, begins to consider who she is.

Author : Brenda Schmahmann
Publisher : David Krut Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art, South African
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121550433

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Through the Looking Glass by Brenda Schmahmann Pdf

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141971247

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The Lady in the Looking Glass by Virginia Woolf Pdf

'People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.' 'If she concealed so much and knew so much one must prize her open with the first tool that came to hand - the imagination.' Virginia Woolf's writing tested the boundaries of modern fiction, exploring the depths of human consciousness and creating a new language of sensation and thought. Sometimes impressionistic, sometimes experimental, sometimes brutally cruel, sometimes surprisingly warm and funny, these five stories describe love lost, friendships formed and lives questioned. This book includes The Lady in the Looking Glass, A Society, The Mark on the Wall, Solid Objects and Lappin and Lapinova.

Author : John Warner Barber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN : UIUC:30112064594770

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The Bible Looking Glass by John Warner Barber Pdf

Author : Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300246728

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The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar Pdf

Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers, and why the book still feels fresh some four decades later. "Gilbert and Gubar have written a pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World

Author : Dana Becker
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-19
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015041371314

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Through The Looking Glass by Dana Becker Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between gender, the experience of psychological distress, which we currently call borderline personality disorder, and the borderline diagnosis as a classification of psychiatric disorder. It offers a new emphasis on elements of female socialization as critical to the understanding of the development of symptoms currently labeled borderline, and should appeal to psychotherapists in all professional groups--psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and other mental health professionals--as well as graduate students in these disciplines. The book should also be valuable to those involved in the fields of women's studies, psychology of women, sociology, and the history of medicine.

Author : Susan S. Lehr
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015073633169

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Shattering the Looking Glass by Susan S. Lehr Pdf

"Shattering the Looking Glass is a thorough, comprehensive volume that defines, analyzes, defends, and often critiques the current state of Children's Literature within American Culture. The book is designed to tackle the major concerns revolving around Children's Literature today, including: the influence of politics and political agendas on the market, quality, and themes; the disagreements over the integration of diversity and diverse ideas into books for children; theoretical and academic discourses that are feeding topics, characters, and narrative structures; and, threaded throughout all of these topics, is a discussion of how these texts can be integrated into the classroom. This book is ideal for the in-service professional who wants insights into the current cultural mindset concerning children's literature, as well as professors who integrate theory and culture into undergraduate and graduate education courses."--pub. desc.