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Liturgical Press
- She Who Imagines: Feminist Theological Aesthetics
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Liturgical Press
summary
The idea and ideal of "beauty" has been used to oppress women of different ages, body types, skin color, and physical ability. The theoretical discussion of aesthetics has also been conditioned by these same dynamics of power and oppression. In She Who Imagines, a diverse set of scholars challenges the exclusion and false definitions while constructing capacious ideas that discover beauty in unexpected places.In these essays, the authors draw on a variety of arts media-painting, photography, portraiture, craftwork, poetry, and hip-hop music-thereby joining beauty to truth and, in a richly defining way, to the practice of justice. In a variety of ways all the essays link women's definitions of beauty with experiences of suffering and hence with the yearning for justice. All clearly prize resistance to degradation as an essential element of thought.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. ix-xvii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xix-xx
- The Critical Aesthetics of Race
- pp. 73-85
- Part 3: She Who Imagines
- pp. 143-144
- List of Contributors
- pp. 225-228
Additional Information
ISBN
9780814680285
Related ISBN(s)
9780814680278
MARC Record
OCLC
966825856
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No