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Beauty matters

Explores the values and politics of beauty as they affect our everyday lives.
Print Book, English, ©2000
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2000
xv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780253337269, 9780253213754, 0253337267, 0253213754
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Kantian and contextual beauty / Marcia M. Eaton
Ethnicity, race, and monstrosity: the rhetorics of horror and humor / Noël Carroll
Malcolm's Conk and Dante's Colors; or, four logical petitions concerning race, beauty, and aesthetics / Paul C. Taylor
Beauty and beautification / Arthur C. Danto
Beauty and its kitsch competitors / Kathleen M. Higgins
Beauty (re)discovers the male body / Susan Bordo
Miss America: whose ideal? / Dawn Perlmutter
Female bodily aesthetics, politics, and feminine ideals of beauty in China / Eva Kit Wah Man
From the crooked timber of humanity, beautiful things can be made / Anita Silvers
Whose beauty? women, art, and intersubjectivity in Luce Irigaray's writings / Hilary Robinson
A man pretending to be a woman: on Yasumasa Morimura's "Actresses" / Kaori Chino
"A new kind of beauty": from classicism to Karole Armitage's early ballets / Sally Banes
Bound to beauty: an interview with Orlan / Peg Zeglin Brand