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The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir. Yet, women continue to be represented as childlike in the western fashion media, despite the historical connotations of inferiority. This book questions why such images still hold appeal to contemporary women, after three, or even four, waves of feminism.Focusing on the period of 1990-2015, Picturing the Woman-Child traces the evolution of childlike femininity in British fashion magazines, including Vogue, i-D and Lula, Girl of my Dreams. These images draw upon a network of references, from Kinderwhore and Lolita to Alice in Wonderland and the femme-enfant of Surrealism.Alongside analysis of fashion photography, the book presents the findings of original research into audience reception. Inviting contemporary women to comment on images of the 'woman-child' provides an insight into the meaning of this figure as well as an evaluation of theory on the 'female gaze'. Both scholarly and accessible, the book paves the way for future studies on how readers make sense of fashion imagery.

Jeunes femmes --- Beauté féminine (esthétique) --- Dans les médias.

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Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Aesthetic movement (Kunst) --- Arts [English ] --- Arts anglais --- Kunsten [Engelse ] --- Movement [Aesthetic] --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- England --- Arts [Modern ] --- 19th century --- Feminite (esthetique) --- Angleterre --- Mouvement esthetique (art anglais) --- Art anglais --- Bibliographies specialisees --- Beaute feminine (esthetique)

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'Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices' critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the 2002 repatriation of the remains of Sara Baartman to post-apartheid South Africa, the interest in the figure of Black Venus has skyrocketed, making her a key symbol for the restoration of the racialized female body in feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial terms. Edited by Jorunn Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, and Zeljka Svrljuga, this volume considers Black Venus as a product of art established and potentially refigured through aesthetic practices, following her travels through different periods, geographies and art forms from Baudelaire to Kara Walker, and from the Caribbean to Scandinavia.

Aesthetics --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- essays --- postcolonialism --- Venus [Mythological character] --- Noires --- Beauté féminine (esthétique) --- Dans l'art --- Dans l'art. --- Women, Black, in art. --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Ideal beautiful women --- Women in art

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Do women's magazines present us with the perfect female form as an ideal? Are they squeamish in the face of the more intimate of body parts? Do they treat 'real' women's bodies differently from celebrities' bodies? These questions, among others, are addressed in this book, which claims that women's magazines help to put readers under enormous pressure to conform to the ideology of the perfect body. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, Lesley Jeffries considers the different ways in which ideologies of the body are played out in the language of the magazine . This approach utilizes concepts such as naming, describing, contrasting and equating to access the hinterland between structure and meaning, and to map out the subtle ways in which texts can naturalise the ideology of the perfect female form.

Body image in women. --- Women's periodicals. --- English language --- Body image in literature. --- Lichamelijkheid. --- Vrouwen. --- Vrouwenbladen. --- Critical discourse analysis. --- Presse féminine --- Beauté féminine (esthétique) --- Discourse analysis. --- Analyse du discours --- Sémantique --- Presse féminine --- Beauté féminine (esthétique) --- Sémantique

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"In 1846, Edgar Allan Poe wrote that "the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjunction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Height6s to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs."--Cover. "Elisabeth Bronfen throws light on the disturbing conjunction of beauty, morbidity and the feminine that pervades our culture. Literary history, art criticism and psychoanalysis fruitfully combine to lay bare the uneasy interplay of pathology and power revealed in representations of the female corpse."--Ray Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.

Beauté corporelle --- Beauté féminine (esthétique). --- Death in literature. --- Death --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics). --- Femininity in literature. --- Femmes dans l'art. --- Femmes dans la littérature. --- Femmes --- Frau. --- Geschichte. --- Künste. --- Literatur. --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature anglaise --- Mort --- Tod. --- Women in literature. --- Dans l'art. --- Dans la littérature. --- Psychological aspects. --- Histoire et critique. --- Geschichte 1750-1980. --- Englisch. --- USA.