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A woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind /

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A "collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy"--Amazon.com.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hustvedt, Siri (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
ART / Art & Politics.
PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
Art.
Feminism.
Neurosciences.
Psychology.
Philosophy.
Essays.
Table of Contents:
  • A woman looking at men looking at women. A woman looking at men looking at women
  • Balloon magic
  • My Louise Bourgeois
  • Anselm Kiefer: the truth is always gray
  • Mapplethorpe / Almodóvar: points and counterpoints
  • Wim Wenders's Pina: dancing for dance
  • Much ado about hairdos
  • Sontag on smut: fifty years later
  • "No competition"
  • The writing self and the psychiatric patient
  • Inside the room
  • The delusions of certainty
  • What are we? : Lectures on the human condition. Borderlands: first, second, and third person adventures in crossing disciplines
  • Becoming others
  • Why one story and not another?
  • I wept for four years and when I stopped I was blind
  • Suicide and the drama of self-consciousness
  • Subjunctive flights: thinking through the embodied reality of imaginary worlds
  • Remembering in art: the horizontal and the vertical
  • Philosophy matters in brain matters
  • Kierkegaard's pseudonyms and the truths of fiction.