Monster Beauty: Building the Body of Love

383 Pages·2000·2.07 MB·English

by  Joanna Frueh

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Monster
BEAUTY
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University ofCalifornia Press Berkeley Los Angeles London
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Monster
B E A U T Y
Building the Body of Love
JOANNA FRUEH
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The following chapters are revised versions ofmaterials
published elsewhere: chapter : “Monster/Beauty: Midlife
Bodybuilding as Aesthetic Discipline,” in Kathleen Wood-
ward, Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, ); chapter :
“Building the Body ofLove,” in Expanding Circles: Women,
Art, and Community, ed. Betty Ann Brown (N.Y.: Midmarch
Arts Press, ); chapter : “Dressing Aphrodite,”
in n. paradoxa(): –.
Excerpt from “I Am Not a Bunny” reprinted by permission
ofMarnie Weber. Excerpt from “The Ship Song,” by Nick
Cave, reprinted by permission ofWindswept Pacific Songs
on behalfofMute Song, Ltd.
Student materials excerpted in chapters and appear
here with permission.
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To Aphrodite
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Aphrodite of Knidos,
Colonna type, Roman copy.
Rome, Vatican .
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Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
Aphrodite’s Garden
39
Photographs by Russell Dudley and Joanna Frueh
EROTIC WEIGHT
 Aphrodisia and Erotogenesis
59
 Hypermuscular Performance
89
 The Passionate Wife, the Passionate Daughter
127
PLEASURE AND PEDAGOGY
 The Professor’s Body
149
 Consensual Erotics
175
 Exertions of Flesh on Flesh
189
 The Primacy of Pleasure:
Leisure, Crush, the Dominatrix
203
 The Amorous Stepmother: A Pedagogical Experiment
215
ICONS OF PLEASURE
 Dressing Aphrodite
247
 Blonde Bunny Goddess
267
 Border Cowgirl
285
 Scarlet Women
287
 Sade, My Sweet, My Truffle; or, Giving a Fuck
289
 Vampiric Strategies
299
List of Illustrations
321
Index
323
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