Beauty and Woolf
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4367085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maggie Humm (University of East London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 237-254 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464700106064422 |
| OpenAlex | W2077115870 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
This essay argues that feminist theory has focused, in the main and for too long, on theories of the body, in a legitimate reaction to a Western masculine coupling of beauty with a female or idealized maternal body and the sublime with male creativity. In consequence, there are few productive feminist accounts of female or maternal beauty. However, Virginia Woolf's writings about beauty, mothers and the body, if read through the lens of post-Lacanian theory - particularly the work of Luce Irigaray and Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger - do offer a moving and positive feminist account of women and beauty. The essay analyses Woolf's ideas about beauty in general, before focusing on To the Lighthouse and The Voyage Out in relation to the writings of Woolf's mother Julia Stephen
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Sublime · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
The feminism and visual culture reader
Patterns of dissonance
Unbearable Weight
Gender and Genius
Streetwalking the Metropolis
Window Shopping
Leaky Bodies and Boundaries
Nomadic subjects
Undoing Gender
The Gender of Modernity
Monster/Beauty
Gender Trouble
Modernist Women and Visual Cultures
Postmodernism is a humanism
The almost‐missed encounters as eroticized aerials of the psyche
Virginia Woolf
Visceral Culture
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Critique of Judgement (1790)
Thinking Through the Body
Je, tu, nous
Matrix and Metramorphosis
The Laugh of the Medusa
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |