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Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics
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ISBN: 0292756925 0292756917 Year: 2014 Publisher: Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press,

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Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either “pretty” or “funny.” Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write and perform their own comedy have become stars, and, most often, they’ve been successful because they were willing to be funny-looking, from Fanny Brice and Phyllis Diller to Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett. In this pretty-versus-funny history, women writer-comedians—no matter what they look like—have ended up on the other side of “pretty,” enabling them to make it the topic and butt of the joke, the ideal that is exposed as funny. Pretty/Funny focuses on Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres, the groundbreaking women comics who flout the pretty-versus-funny dynamic by targeting glamour, postfeminist girliness, the Hollywood A-list, and feminine whiteness with their wit and biting satire. Linda Mizejewski demonstrates that while these comics don’t all identify as feminists or take politically correct positions, their work on gender, sexuality, and race has a political impact. The first major study of women and humor in twenty years, Pretty/Funny makes a convincing case that women’s comedy has become a prime site for feminism to speak, talk back, and be contested in the twenty-first century.


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Female beauty in art : history, feminism, women artists
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ISBN: 1443870161 1322215669 9781322215662 9781443870160 1443853399 9781443853392 Year: 2014 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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In Female Beauty in Art, a series of essays examine the presence and role of female beauty in art, history and culture, and consider the ways in which beauty can function as a discourse of female identity. As a concept, female beauty is unique in that it can contain compelling imbrications of gender ideologies, images, relations, cultural constructions and modes of interaction between persons and the institutions that define their lives. Thus, female beauty can provide proliferating methods t...

The symptom of beauty
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ISBN: 094846254X 0948462531 9780948462535 9780948462542 Year: 1994 Publisher: London Reaktion Books

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Beauty is not a singular thing, Francette Pacteau tells us, but a generic term for an unspecifiable number of disparate experiences. What these experiences are is the subject of Pacteau's book, an intriguing psychoanalytic study of beauty that looks into the eye of the beholder and to the mind conjuring behind it. Less interested in the contingent object of desire than the fantasy that frames it, Pacteau considers the staging of the aesthetic emotion. Her book is an ambitious attempt to describe the mise-en-scène of beauty within a particular field of representations - that of the beauty of woman. Within this field, which extends from the classical ideals of beauty from Renaissance to the most recent pinups and bionic women, Pacteau analyzes the formulation of beauty in Western culture. -- from back cover.


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Exploring the Black Venus figure in aesthetic practices
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ISBN: 9789004395206 9789004407916 900440791X 9004395202 Year: 2019 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi,

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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.


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(En)gendered : frühneuzeitlicher Kunstdiskurs und weibliche Porträtkultur nördlich der Alpen.
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ISBN: 3894453389 Year: 2004 Publisher: Marburg Jonas

The feminine ideal
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ISBN: 1861890044 9781861890047 Year: 1997 Publisher: London Reaktion Books

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"In this book Marianne Thesander examines the significance of the female body, beauty and culture. She shows how the female body is constantly being changed, and by various, sometimes punishing, effects made to fit current feminine physical ideals."--Jacket.

Beauty matters
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ISBN: 0253337267 0253213754 Year: 2000 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,


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Radiance from the waters : ideals of feminine beauty in Mende art
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ISBN: 0300035764 Year: 1986 Publisher: New Haven London Yale University Press

The pre-Raphaelite body : fear and desire in painting, poetry, and criticism
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ISBN: 0198182570 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

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