Feminine Persuasion / edited by Betsy Stirratt and Catherine Johnson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2003Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource: illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253068996
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Contents:
Preface / John Bancroft, M.D. -- Feminine persuasion / Betsy Stirratt, Catherine Johnson -- Ideal images and Kinsey's women / June Machover Reinisch, Ph. D. -- Artistic behavior in the human female / Jean Robertson, Ph. D. -- Women artists in the Kinsey Institute Collection -- Male perspective -- Contemporary women's sexualities.
Review: "This illustrated book showcases five centuries of visual interpretations of female sexuality collected by The Kinsey Institute, and also includes work by contemporary artists Ghada Amer, Patty Chang, Renee Cox, Nancy Davidson, Nicole Eisenman, and Laura Letinsky. In addition to 45 plates, Feminine Persuasion features two essays that place this wide-ranging work in context. Assessing what the ideal body image of the original Kinsey subjects might have been, June Machover Reinisch discusses the ever-changing standards of female beauty, while Jean Robertson, in a survey of the history of feminist art over the past half century, explores the complex dimensions that constitute this work."--BOOK JACKET.
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Catalog of an exhibition in honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Sexual behavior in the human female, February 14-March 14, 2003, presented by the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction and the School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University.

Preface / John Bancroft, M.D. -- Feminine persuasion / Betsy Stirratt, Catherine Johnson -- Ideal images and Kinsey's women / June Machover Reinisch, Ph. D. -- Artistic behavior in the human female / Jean Robertson, Ph. D. -- Women artists in the Kinsey Institute Collection -- Male perspective -- Contemporary women's sexualities.

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"This illustrated book showcases five centuries of visual interpretations of female sexuality collected by The Kinsey Institute, and also includes work by contemporary artists Ghada Amer, Patty Chang, Renee Cox, Nancy Davidson, Nicole Eisenman, and Laura Letinsky. In addition to 45 plates, Feminine Persuasion features two essays that place this wide-ranging work in context. Assessing what the ideal body image of the original Kinsey subjects might have been, June Machover Reinisch discusses the ever-changing standards of female beauty, while Jean Robertson, in a survey of the history of feminist art over the past half century, explores the complex dimensions that constitute this work."--BOOK JACKET.

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