A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women by Siri Hustvedt
Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
A collection of essays and lectures that blends memoir, literary and art criticism, and neuroscience to examine how perception, memory, gender, and identity shape the ways we see and are seen. The writer interrogates the gaze and the cultural forces that construct male and female subjectivity, mixing close readings of artworks and texts with reflections on psychiatric and neurological research, personal experience, and philosophical inquiry. The result is a probing, interdisciplinary meditation on vision, language, and the politics of looking.
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- 2016
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