Revisiting the Gaze

The Fashioned Body and the Politics of Looking

Morna Laing, Jacki Willson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-24303-3 (ISBN)

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In 1975 Laura Mulvey published her seminal essay on the male gaze, ushering in a new era in understanding the politics and theory of looking at the female body. Since then, feminist thinking has expanded upon and revised Mulvey’s theory and much of the Western world has seen a resurgence in feminist activism as well as the rise of neoliberalism and shifts in digital culture and (self-)representation. For the first time, this book addresses what it means to look at the fashioned female body in this radical new landscape.

In chapters exploring the fashioned body within contexts such as queerness, veiling, blackness, pregnancy, fatness, and criminality, Revisiting the Gaze addresses intersectional debates in feminism and re-evaluates the concept of the gaze in light of recent social and political changes. With an interdisciplinary approach, bridging fashion and fine art, this book opens the door to discussions about the male gaze and the fashioned body.

Morna Laing is Assistant Professor in Fashion Studies at The New School, Parsons Paris, France. She is the author of Picturing the Woman-child: Feminism, Fashion and the Female Gaze (Bloomsbury, 2020). Jacki Willson is a University Academic Fellow in Performance and Culture in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of The Happy Stripper: Pleasures & Politics of the New Burlesque (2008) and Being Gorgeous: Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual (2015).

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Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction - Morna Laing and Jacki Willson

Part I - Looking: The Optic and the Haptic

2. Double Acts: Oscillating Between Optical and Haptic Visuality in a Digital Age - Maria Walsh and Mo Throp
3. The Ambient Gaze: Sensory Atmosphere and the Dressed Body - Sara Chong Kwan
4. The Veiled Body: The Alienated system of ‘Looking’ in Post-revolutionary Iran (1979-present) - Azadeh Fatehrad

Part II - Looking Through Neoliberalism

5. Becoming in the Eyes of Others: The Relational Gaze in Boudoir Photography - Ilya Parkins
6. The Dissecting Gaze: Fashioned Bodies on Social Networking Sites - Dawn Woolley
7. Making Lemonade?: Beyoncé’s Pregnancies and the Postfeminist Media Gaze - Maureen Brewster

Part III - Looking at the 'Other'

8. Looking Fat in a Slender World: The Dialectic of Seeing and Becoming in Jen Davis’ Eleven Years - Lauren Downing Peters
9. Re-reading the Queer Female Gaze in the 1990s: Spectatorship, Fashion and the Duality of Identification and Desire - Catherine Baker
10. Killer Looks: Marlene McCarty’s Murder Girls - Rosa Nogués

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Dress Cultures
Zusatzinfo	14 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	327 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-24303-5 / 1350243035
ISBN-13	978-1-350-24303-3 / 9781350243033
Zustand	Neuware