Hypatia articles from September 2003

Hypatia archives from September 2003

Introduction: feminism and aesthetics.
September 22, 2003... It is with great enthusiasm that we present this special issue of Hypatia on feminism and aesthetics. It has been more than twelve years since guest editors Hilde Hein and Carolyn Korsmeyer put together the first special issue of Hypatia on...

Incommensurability.
September 22, 2003... From the back scrouched down on my haunches, in my leather jacket and jeans, this forty year old woman was mistaken for a man. When I was twenty and my breasts were celebratory and high and my hair poured light down to my...

Thinking through the body: women artists and the Catholic imagination.
September 22, 2003... Interviewer: Isn't it true that growing up Catholic you're cursed with the view of women either as virgins or whores? Madonna: I was certainly aware of it, but I couldn't understand why you couldn't be both. --Benson and Metz, The...

Jenny Saville and a feminist aesthetics of disgust.
September 22, 2003... The contemplation of beauty and pleasure are deeply embedded in the Western tradition of aesthetics. Despite their marginal position within this tradition, many women artists have continued with the practice of contemplating beauty and pleasure...

Feminist pleasure and feminine beautification.
September 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION That beauty is a problem for feminist theory is clear. Feminists ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft (1983) to Susan Bordo (1993) have analyzed the phenomenon of feminine beautification as a crucial and oppressive moment in an...

Sublime hunger: a consideration of eating disorders beyond beauty.
September 22, 2003... Imagine this: You wake up at 5 A.M., dizzy, with an empty feeling in the pit of your gut. Your first thoughts are of food, but not in any simple sense. Instead of thinking about some delicious meal that might satisfy your hunger, you think...

The "batty" politic: toward an aesthetic of the black female body.
September 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION When tennis champion Serena Williams, days before winning the 2002 U. S. Open, appeared on the courts in a black spandex suit, media frenzy ensued. Her black female body, adorned in all its "ghetto" glamour--bleached-blonde...

Somaesthetics and The Second Sex: a pragmatist reading of a feminist classic.
September 22, 2003... I. In the pragmatist tradition of William James (1976, 1983) and John Dewey (1981, 1987), I put experience at the heart of philosophy and celebrate the living, sentient body as the organizing core of experience. So in developing a more...

Vaginal aesthetics.
September 22, 2003... A WEALTH OF TRADITION, A WEALTH OF PROBLEMS The vagina is rich and sweet. "Move on me," he says. It is entered through a rose. My vaginal flora taste subtle on your lips and tongue. The vagina is a...

Where ethics and aesthetics meet: Titian's Rape of Europa.
September 22, 2003... Titian's Rape of Europa (1559-62, oil on canvas, 178.7 x 202.5 cm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston) is often touted as the greatest Italian Renaissance painting hanging in an American collection. It is also considered one of Titian's...

Feminist art and the political imagination.
September 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION Feminist cultural production is often dismissed. Rarely considered "real" art or "aesthetically good," mainstream critics single out feminist art work as evidence of the less than salutary effects of allowing group identity...

Liberal feminism, from law to art: the impact of feminist jurisprudence on feminist aesthetics.
September 22, 2003... Like other twentieth-century social movements, feminism has framed its agenda in terms of the concepts and terminology of classic political liberalism. Given the context of Western liberal democracies, feminists found that by arguing that...

"What else can I do but write?" Discursive disruption and the ethics of style in Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas.
September 22, 2003... Virginia Woolf's book-length essay Three Guineas (1938) has commonly been read as sustaining a singular point of view. (1) Even recent critics, who discern similarities between Woolf's innovations with narrative technique in her fiction and her...

Annotated bibliography of writings in feminism and aesthetics.
September 22, 2003... Over the past decade, feminist scholars, artists, and art critics have published an enormous amount of material. The editors of this special issue of Hypatia wished to include a bibliography that would survey recent publications in the area of...

Aesthetics in Crisis: Feminist Attempts to Create an Interdisciplinary Discourse.
September 22, 2003... Aesthetics in Crisis: Feminist Attempts to Create an Interdisciplinary Discourse Both of these books have the potential to make a difference in the ways in which visual artists, philosophers of aesthetics, and feminist theorists think...

"Images" of the Female and of the Self: Two Recent Interpretations by Women Authors.
September 22, 2003... "Images" of the Female and of the Self: Two Recent Interpretations by Women Authors Gender in the Mirror (2002), by Diana Tietjen Meyers, is not primarily a book about aesthetic theory. It is a book about freedom of the will and its...

Books received.
September 22, 2003... Bailey, David A., and Gilane Tawadros, eds. 2003. Veil: Veiling, representation and contemporary art. Cambridge: The MIT Press. Benhabib, Seyla. 2002. The claims of cultures: Equality and diversity in the global era. Princeton: Princeton...