Differential Aesthetics

Contents: Part 1: Introduction: Philosophy and Feminism, Penny Florence and Nicola Foster; Part 2: Contemporary Practices: Introduction, Penny Florence and Nicola Foster; Artists’ Statements, Mary Anson, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, RyyA Bread ©, Vicki Feaver, Barbara Freeman, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Lubaina Himid, Jo Hsieh, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Valerie Reardon, Deborah Robinson, Lesley Sanderson, Nancy Spero, Yuen-yi Lo, Partou Zia; Part 3: In the (Western) Beginning: Introduction, Penny Florence and Nicola Foster; Love and writing - Phaedrus and the Symposium, Robyn Ferrell; Beautiful music - a fixed pitch? Plato, music and gender, Barbara Underwood; Part 4: And Then There Was (German) Enlightenment: Introduction, Penny Florence and Nicola Foster; Kant’s ghost, among others, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe; Aesthetics in the gaps - subverting the sublime for a female subject, Rachel Jones; Living dialectics, Aufhebung and performance art, Petra Kuppers; Nancy Spero and woman in performance, Judy Purdom; Part 5: And There Shall be (Polyvalent) Beyond: Introduction, Penny Florence and Nicola Foster; Transgressing with-in-to the feminine, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger; The gendering of allegory: Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document and Benjamin’s melancholy dialectics, Christine Conley; Feminism, postmodernism and the aesthetics of parody, Catherine Constable; Cybertime: towards an aesthetics of mutation and evolution, Sean Cubitt; The morphology of the mucous: irigarayan possibilities in the material practice of art, Hilary Robinson; A matter of paint: the carnal subject of aesthetics, Rosemary Betterton; From matter to materialisations: feminist politics and the aesthetics of radical difference, Marsha Meskimmon; Working hot: materialising practices, Barb Bolt; Bibliography; Index.