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Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics

Peggy Z. Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer

504 pages | 23 illustrations | 6 x 9 | 1995

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ISBN 978-0-271-01341-1 | paper: $34.95

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An anthology that connects recent debates in feminist theory to debates in traditional philosophical aesthetics.


Peggy Zeglin Brand is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University; she has published various essays on philosophy of art and on artworks by women.

Carolyn Korsmeyer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York-Buffalo and is coauthor of Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe (Illinois, 1985) and coeditor (with Hilde Hein) of Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective (Indiana, 1993)."


Contents

Foreword
Arthur C. Danto


Introduction:
Aesthetics and Its Traditions Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn
Korsmeyer


Beautiful
and Sublime: "Gender Totemism" in the Constitution of Art Paul
Mattick, Jr.


Gendered
Concepts and Hume's Standard of Taste Carolyn Korsmeyer


Intensity
and Its Audiences: Toward a Feminist Perspective on the Kantian
Sublime Timothy Gould


Stages
on Kant's Way: Aesthetics, Morality, and the Gendered Sublime Christine
Battersby


Oppressive
Texts, Resisting Readers, and the Gendered Spectator: The "New"
Aesthetics Mary Devereaux


The
Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators bell hooks


A
History of Music Renee Lorraine


"Who
is Speaking?" Of Nation, Community, and First-Person Interviews
Trinh T. Minh-ha


Interweaving
Feminist Frameworks Elizabeth Ann Dobie


Monologues
from "Four Intruders Plus Alarm Systems" and "Safe" Adrian Piper


Revising
the Aesthetic-Nonaesthetic Distinction: The Aesthetic Value of Activist
Art Peggy Zeglin Brand


Has
Her(oine's) Time Now Come? Anita Silvers


Feminist
Art History and De Facto Significance Susan L. Feagin


Leonardo
da Vinci and Creative Female Nature Mary D. Garrard


Mothers
and Daughters: Ancient and Modern Myths Ellen Handler Spitz


The
Image of Women in Film: A Defense of a Paradigm Noel Carroll


Analytic
Aesthetics and Feminist Aesthetics: Neither/Nor? Joanne B. Waugh


Reconciling
Analytic and Feminist Philosophy and Aesthetics Joseph Margolis


Why
Feminism Doesn't Need an Aesthetic (And Why It Can't Ignore Aesthetics)
Rita Felski


The
Role of Feminist Aesthetics in Feminist Theory Hilde Hein