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Being gorgeous : feminism, sexuality and the pleasures of the visual / Jacki Willson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : I. B. Tauris Ltd., 2015.Description: 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781780762845
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Contents: List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Being an Art Object -- Part I -- 1 -- Exquisite Surfaces -- Eye Candy -- 2 -- Naked Girls -- To Be Looked At23 -- Part II -- 3 -- Anarchic Femininities -- Creative Sexpots -- 4 -- Being an Object1 -- Subcultural Models -- Part III -- 5 -- Fashion and Art -- Glitter and Meat -- 6 -- Sex -- Masturbation -- Part IV -- 7 -- Crumbling Bath Bombs and Flaking Nail Varnish -- Toxic Flowers and Barbed Flesh -- 8 -- Masquerade Balls and the 'Green Fairy' -- The Mind as Magical Fairground -- Conclusion -- Now you see me ... -- ... And now you don't -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Contents: List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Being an Art Object -- Part I -- 1 -- Exquisite Surfaces -- Eye Candy -- 2 -- Naked Girls -- To Be Looked At23 -- Part II -- 3 -- Anarchic Femininities -- Creative Sexpots -- 4 -- Being an Object1 -- Subcultural Models -- Part III -- 5 -- Fashion and Art -- Glitter and Meat -- 6 -- Sex -- Masturbation -- Part IV -- 7 -- Crumbling Bath Bombs and Flaking Nail Varnish -- Toxic Flowers and Barbed Flesh -- 8 -- Masquerade Balls and the 'Green Fairy' -- The Mind as Magical Fairground -- Conclusion -- Now you see me ... -- ... And now you don't -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.