{"product_id":"the-female-body-in-western-culture-contemporary-perspectives","title":"The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe female body has occupied a central place in the Western imagination  its images pervading poetry and story  mythology and religious doctrine  the visual arts  and scientific treatises. It has inspired both attraction and fear  been perceived as beautiful and unclean  alluring and dangerous  a source of pleasure and nurturing but also a source of evil and destruction. In The Female Body in Western Culture  twenty-three internationally noted scholars and critics  in specially commissioned essays  explore these representations and their consequences for contemporary art and culture. Ranging from Genesis to Gertrude Stein and Angela Carter  from ancient Greek ritual to the Victorian sleeping cure  from images of the Madonna to modern film and Surrealist art  the essays cover a wide spectrum of approaches and subject mailer. They all converge  however  around questions of power and powerlessness  voice and silence  subjecthood and objectification. And they point the way to the new possibilities and displacements of traditional male-female oppositions. Androgyny in a new key? This book demonstrates that a blurring of gender boundaries does not have to deny difference.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44944889675829,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674298713","price":28.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674298712_cfa7d1d5-c4c4-4aa3-a2ae-5063c4045ceb.jpg?v=1770160077","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-female-body-in-western-culture-contemporary-perspectives","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}