Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos (eBook)

The New Feminine Aesthetics

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (Autor)

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2015
212 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0047-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos: The New Feminine Aesthetics inaugurates a new approach toward the history and usage of nudity, veiling, and tattoos. By taking an unorthodox approach towards three phenomena that have changed considerably during the past thirty years, this book reveals through conceptual analysis that the three are both private and public, humiliating and empowering, and backward and progressive, and can ultimately be traced by similar social and psychological patterns.

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At first sight, tattoos, nudity, and veils do not seem to have much in common except for the fact that all three have become more frequent, more visible, and more dominant in connection with aesthetic presentations of women over the past thirty years. No longer restricted to biker and sailor culture, tattoos have been sanctioned by the mainstream of liberal societies. Nudity has become more visible than ever on European beaches or on the internet. The increased use of the veil by women in Muslim and non-Muslim countries has developed in parallel with the aforementioned phenomena and is just as striking. Through the means of conceptual analysis, Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos: The New Feminine Aesthetics reveals that these three phenomena can be both private and public, humiliating and empowering, and backward and progressive. This unorthodox approach is traced by the three's similar social and psychological patterns, and by doing so, Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos hopes to sketch the image of a woman who is not only sexually emancipated and confident, but also more and more aware of her cultural heritage.

Autor

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein is associate professor of philosophy at Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Veils, Tattoos, NudityPart I: VeilsChapter 1: Veils and SunglassesChapter 2: Veiling and Third Wave Feminism: Playing with FireChapter 3: Can the Veil be Cool?Chapter 4: Respect and Shame: Sarah Kofman on VeilingChapter 5: “Cool Space”: Segregation and VeilingPart II: Nudity and TattoosChapter 6: Tattoos, Nudity, VeilsChapter 7: From the Stigmatized Tattoo to the Graffitied Body: Femininity in the Tattoo RenaissanceChapter 8: Nudity and Tattoos from Naturism to Suicide GirlsChapter 9: “Veils and Viagra”: A Double Victory?ConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Coolness • Hijab • Islamic veil • nude protests • Nudism • Sarah Kofman • Suicide Girls • tattoo renaissance • Third Wave feminism
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0047-1 / 1498500471
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0047-0 / 9781498500470