Feminist Aesthetics

By Gisela Ecker

Feminist Aesthetics reflects the current thinking among German scholars and artists. Novelist Christa Wolf probes the pre-Homeric significance of Cassandra, prophetess of Troy. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807067296
• ISBN13: 9780807067291
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

clarifications

to the reader from tukwila, WA, who posted the first review: just wanted to respond to your hostile statements and your claim that there are no female philosphers--well, you have succeeded in displaying your poverty as a reader because there are countless female philosphers and it is a shame that you don't know any. perhaps if you did, your perceptions wouldn't be so narrow and flawed.

a bit dated, but extremely useful on revisioning aesthetics

This little volume of mostly European feminists and artists presents a nice introduction to the question of women as makers of art rather than as objects of art. Linking the origins of feminist/womanist art with the idealized matriarchal cultures which produced earth-based festivals in the ancient world, the authors here suggest that just such a recovery of linkage of meaning, earth, and woman's body is needed to provide truly transformational art experiences. Contains the lovely statement (useful to feminist professors and others in regressive environments) that "Patriarchal values are meaningful only in their sublation"---suggesting that the purposes of women's art is to destabilize the assumed, authoritative meanings assigned to experience by malestream/mainstream culture.