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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Orbach, Susie
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 39 2009
- Thesaurus
- lichamen, psychologie, psychoanalyse, vrouwbeelden, anorexia nervosa, diëten, plastische chirurgie, wereld, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 2000-2009, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Throughout the Western world, people have come to believe that general dissatisfaction can be relieved by some change in their bodies. Here Susie Orbach explains the origins of this condition, and examines its implications. Challenging the Freudian view that bodily disorders originate and progress in the mind, she argues that we should look at self-mutilation, obesity, anorexia, and plastic surgery on their own terms, through a reading of the body itself. Incorporating the latest research from neuropsychology, as well as case studies from her own practice, she traces many of these fixations back to the relationship between mothers and babies, to anxieties that are transferred unconsciously. She reveals how vulnerable our bodies are, how susceptible to every kind of negative stimulus--from a nursing infant sensing a mother's discomfort to a grown man or woman feeling inadequate because of a model on a billboard. .In the past several decades, a globalized media has overwhelmed us with images of an idealized, westernized body, and conditioned us to see any exception to that ideal as a problem. The body has become an object, a site of production and commerce in and of itself. Instead of our bodies making things, we now make our bodies. Orbach reveals the true dimensions of the crisis, and points the way toward healing and acceptance.
new directions in contemporary art
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Reilly, Maura > (ed.)
- Creator
- Nochlin, Linda > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 73 2007
- Thesaurus
- kunstenaressen, schilderkunst, beeldhouwkunst, feminisme, identiteit, vrouwbeelden, biografische gegevens, wereld, Afrika, India, Japan, Azië, Midden-Amerika, West-Europa, Oost-Europa, Centraal-Europa, 1990-1999, 2000-2009, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, tentoonstellingscatalogus
- Description
- This publication brings together works by over eighty contemporary women artists from over fifty countries, among them Catherine Opie, Miwa Yanagi, Pilar Albarracín, Shahzia Sikander and Yin Xiuzhen. Contributions by a multinational team of authors focus particular attention on socio-cultural, racial and gender identities. Includes essays by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin, N'gone Fall, Geeta Kapur, Michiko Kasahara, Joan Kee, Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Elisabeth Lebovici, Charlotta Kotík. Published on occasion of the exhibition 'Global Feminisms', organized by the Brooklyn Museum, March 23-July 1, 2007.
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