The Beauty of Choice: On Women, Art, and Freedom

by Wendy Steiner

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In The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women's taste as the engine of liberal values.

Steiner reframes long-standing questions surrounding desire, art, sexual assault, and beauty in light of #MeToo. Beginning with an opera she wrote based...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0231215266

ISBN13:9780231215268

Release Date:July 2024

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Art Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy

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