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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.
Women comedians --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Racism --- Ideal beautiful women --- Aesthetics --- Women in art
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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...
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Women --- Female identity --- Feminine identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Ideal beautiful women --- Aesthetics --- Women in art --- Identity.
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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.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Feminism and the arts --- Psychoanalysis and the arts --- Men --- 7.01 --- CDL --- Ideal beautiful women --- Arts and psychoanalysis --- Arts and feminism --- Psychology --- Visual arts --- Aesthetics --- Women in art --- Arts
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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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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Portraits, European --- Women in art --- European portraits --- Ideal beautiful women --- Aesthetics --- Themes, motives --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Painting --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- vrouwenportretten --- Duitse school --- Franse school --- Hollandse school --- Vlaamse school
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Aesthetics --- Iconography --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Art --- Critique d'art --- Théorie de l'art --- Psychanalyste --- Psychanalyse et art --- Peintre --- Nu (thème) --- Iconologie --- Graveur --- Femme, thème --- Esthétique --- Beau, concept --- Psychology. --- Bellini, Giovanni --- Paris, Jean --- Raphael, Raffaello Sansio Dit --- Raimondi, Marcantonio --- Kant, Emmanuel --- Freud, Sigmund --- Cranach, Lucas,l'ancien Ou L'aïné --- 15e siècle --- 16e siècle --- 20e siècle --- -Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Ideal beautiful women --- Women in art --- Psychology --- #A9309H --- -Psychology --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics). --- -Ideal beautiful women --- Art, Occidental --- Esthetica. --- Iconografie. --- Art - Psychology.
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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.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics). --- Femininity. --- Human body --- Fashion --- Lingerie --- Women --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions. --- CDL --- 391 --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Femininity --- Women's underwear --- Ideal beautiful women --- Femininity (Psychology) --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Underwear --- Women's clothing --- Aesthetics --- Women in art --- Sex (Psychology) --- Feminism
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Aesthetics. --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Esthétique --- Beauté féminine (Esthétique) --- Ideal beautiful women --- Aesthetics --- Women in art --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology --- Esthétique --- Beauté féminine (Esthétique) --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Beauté féminine (esthétique)
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Arts, Mende --- Arts, Primitive --- -Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Ideal beautiful women --- Aesthetics --- Women in art --- Primitive arts --- Mende arts --- Sande Society --- Sande-Frauengeheimgesellschaft --- Arts --- Arts, Mende. --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics). --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Sande Society. --- 702.3 --- 700.6 --- 954.1 Sierra Leone
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820 "18" --- Arts, English --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Pre-Raphaelitism --- Women in art --- Preraphaelitism --- Art --- Ideal beautiful women --- Aesthetics --- English arts --- Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Arts, English. --- Pre-Raphaelitism. --- Women in art. --- 820 "18" Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).
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