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Author : Jina B. Kim
Release : 2021-10-12
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 494/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sex, Identity, Aesthetics by : Jina B. Kim
Download or read book Sex, Identity, Aesthetics written by Jina B. Kim. This book was released on 2021-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Tobin Siebers' foundational work in disability studies resonates in the field today
Author : Jina B. Kim
Release : 2021-10-12
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 474/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sex, Identity, Aesthetics by : Jina B. Kim
Download or read book Sex, Identity, Aesthetics written by Jina B. Kim. This book was released on 2021-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Tobin Siebers was a pioneer of, and one of the most prominent thinkers in, the field of disability studies. His scholarship on sexual and intimate affiliations, the connections between structural location and coalitional politics, and the creative arts has shaped disability studies and continues to be widely cited. Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies uses Siebers’ work as a launchpad for thinking about contemporary disability studies. The editors provide an overview of Siebers’ research to show how it has contributed to humanistic understandings of ability and disability along three key axes: sex, identity, and aesthetics. The first section of the book explores how disability provides a way for scholars to theorize a wider range of intimacies and relationalities, arguing that disabled people seek sexual access and revolution in ways that transgress heteronormative dictates on sexual propriety. The second part of the book works outward from Siebers’ work to looks at how disability broadens our concepts of social location and political affiliations. The final section examines how disability challenges traditional notions of artistic beauty and agency. Rather than being a strictly commemorative collection meant to mark the end of a major scholar’s career, this collection shows how Siebers’ foundational work in disability studies remains central to and continues to inspire scholars in the field today.
Author : Tobin Siebers
Release : 2010
Genre : Aesthetics
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Book Rating : 005/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Disability Aesthetics by : Tobin Siebers
Download or read book Disability Aesthetics written by Tobin Siebers. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rich but hidden role that disability plays in modern art and in aesthetic judgments
Author : Romana Byrne
Release : 2013-11-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 790/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Aesthetic Sexuality by : Romana Byrne
Download or read book Aesthetic Sexuality written by Romana Byrne. This book was released on 2013-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand why the concept of aesthetic sexuality is important, we must consider the influence of the first volume of Foucault's seminal The History of Sexuality. Arguing against Foucault's assertions that only scientia sexualis has operated in modern Western culture while ars erotica belongs to Eastern and ancient societies, Byrne suggests that modern Western culture has indeed witnessed a form of ars erotica, encompassed in what she calls 'aesthetic sexuality'. To argue for the existence of aesthetic sexuality, Byrne examines mainly works of literature to show how, within these texts, sexual practice and pleasure are constructed as having aesthetic value, a quality that marks these experiences as forms of art. In aesthetic sexuality, value and meaning are located within sexual practice and pleasure rather than in their underlying cause; sexuality's raison d'être is tied to its aesthetic value, at surface level rather than beneath it. Aesthetic sexuality, Byrne shows, is a product of choice, a deliberate strategy of self-creation as well as a mode of social communication.
Author : Sherri Irvin
Release : 2016-07-14
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Body Aesthetics by : Sherri Irvin
Download or read book Body Aesthetics written by Sherri Irvin. This book was released on 2016-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body is a rich object for aesthetic inquiry. We aesthetically assess both our own bodies and those of others, and our felt bodily experiences—as we eat, have sex, and engage in other everyday activities—have aesthetic qualities. The body, whether depicted or actively performing, features centrally in aesthetic experiences of visual art, theatre, dance and sports. Body aesthetics can be a source of delight for both the subject and the object of the gaze. But aesthetic consideration of bodies also raises acute ethical questions: the body is deeply intertwined with one's identity and sense of self, and aesthetic assessment of bodies can perpetuate oppression based on race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, size, and disability. Artistic and media representations shape how we see and engage with bodies, with consequences both personal and political. This volume contains sixteen original essays by contributors in philosophy, sociology, dance, disability theory, critical race studies, feminist theory, medicine, and law. Contributors take on bodily beauty, sexual attractiveness, the role of images in power relations, the distinct aesthetics of disabled bodies, the construction of national identity, the creation of compassion through bodily presence, the role of bodily style in moral comportment, and the somatic aesthetics of racialized police violence.
