Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love

Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love

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This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life. Bringing together her varied experiences as a poet, art historian, bodybuilder, and noted performance artist, Joanna Frueh shows us how to move beyond society's equation of...more
Paperback, 353 pages
Published February 19th 2001 by University of California Press (first published February 5th 2000)
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