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

by Wendy Steiner

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