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Aestheticism, Feminism, and the Dynamics of Reversal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Amy Newman
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Abstract

Postmodern aestheticism is defined as a way of thinking that privileges the art of continual reversal. The dynamics of reversal operate according to a theoretical model that, historically speaking, has been the vehicle for blatantly masculinist ideologies. This creates problems for feminist thinking that would appropriate the postmodern conception of the subjectivity of the artist or the aestheticist dissolution of the distinction between life and an.

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Hypatia , Volume 5 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Feminism and Aesthetics , Summer 1990 , pp. 20 - 32
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Copyright © 1990 by Hypatia, Inc.

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