Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics

Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. xvi, 486 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. "This anthology connects recent debates in feminist theory to debates in traditional philosophical aesthetics. Among the topics covered are: gender totemism; the oppositional gaze in terms of the black female spectator; the interweaving of feminist frameworks; and the image of women in film." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Beautiful and sublime: "Gender totemism" in the constitution of art, by Paul Mattick, Jr.; Gendered concepts and Hume's standard of taste, by Carolyn Korsmeyer; Intensity and its audiences: toward a feminist perspective on the Kantian sublime, by Timothy Gould; Stages on Kant's way: aesthetics, morality, and the gendered sublime, by Christine Battersby; Oppressive texts, resisting readers, and the gendered spectator: the "new" aesthetics, by Mary Devereaux; The oppositional gaze: Black female spectators, by bell hooks; A history of music, by Rene e Lorraine; "Who is speaking?": Of nation, community, and first-person interviews, by Trinh T. Minh-ha; Interweaving feminist frameworks, by Elizabeth Ann Dobie; Monologues from "four intruders plus alarm systems" and "Safe", by Adrian Piper; Revising the aesthetic-nonaesthetic distinction: the aesthetic value of activist art, by Peggy Zeglin Brand; Has her(oine's) time now come?, by Anita Silvers; Feminist art history and de facto significance, by Susan L. Feagin; Leonardo da Vinci and creative female nature, by Mary D. Garrard; Mothers and daughters: ancient and modern myths, by Ellen Handler Spitz; The image of women in film: a defense of paradigm, by Noe l Carroll; Analytic aesthetics and feminist aesthetics: neither/nor?, by Joanne B. Waugh; Reconciling analytic and feminist philosophy and aesthetics, by Joseph Margolis; Why feminism doesn't need an aesthetic (and why it can't ignore aesthetics), by Rita Felski; The role of feminist aesthetics in feminist theory, by Hilde Hein.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.