Table of Contents

Foreword: Cutting Two Ways with Beauty Eleanor Heartney
Acknowledgments
Introduction: How Beauty Matters Peg Zeglin Brand
Part 1. Beyond Kant
1. Kantian and Contextual Beauty Marcia M. Eaton
2. Ethnicity, Race, and Monstrosity: The Rhetorics of Horror and Humor Nokl Carroll
3. Malcolm's Conk and Danto's Colors, or: Four Logical Petitions Concerning Race, Beauty, and Aesthetics Paul C. Taylor
4. Beauty and Beautification Arthur C. Danto
Part 2. Body Beautiful
5. Beauty and Its Kitsch Competitors Kathleen M. Higgins
6. Beauty (Re)Discovers the Male Body Susan Bordo
7. Miss America: Whose Ideal? Dawn Perlmutter
8. Female Bodily Aesthetics, Politics, and Feminine Ideals of Beauty in China Eva Kit Wah Man
9. From the Crooked Timber of Humanity, Beautiful Things Can Be Made Anita Silvers
Part 3. Body as Art
10. Whose Beauty? Women, Art, and Inter-subjectivity in Luce Irigaray's Writings Hilary Robinson
11. A Man Pretending to Be a Woman: On Yasumasa Morimura's Actresses Kaori Chino
12. "A New Kind of Beauty": Karole Armitage's Early Ballets Sally Banes
13. Bound to Beauty: An Interview with Orlan Peg Zeglin Brand
Contributors
Index

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About the Author

Peg Brand Weiser is Adjunct Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and Emerita Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. She is editor of  Beauty Unlimited and of (with Carolyn Korsmeyer) Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics, and author of numerous essays in feminist aesthetics dealing with women's art, creativity, beauty standards and sports. She served as the first Chair of the Feminist Caucus Committee of the American Society for Aesthetics and is the former First Lady of Indiana University (1994-2002).

Reviews

"... lively and well-written ..."--British Journal of Aesthetics, April 2002