The sexuality of seeing sexuality

Author

Bronfen, Elisabeth

Document type

Compte rendu de livres

Language

English

Source

Art history. 1990, Num. 4, Vol. 13, p. 576-580

ISSN

0141-6790

Abstract (en)

Studies concerned with the way medical discourses and illustrations are inscribed by and perpetuate cultural constructions of gender; Jordanova begins with analysis of scientific discourses and suggests how these serve as mediations for other ideas concerning gender roles and effects of power and subjugation; Gilman begins with a wide collection of examples from anatomical atlases and the visual arts representing genitalia, and considers tacit assumptions underlying these representations of the sexualized human body.

Subject (en)

• General works -- Iconography
• Medicine
• Illustration
• Science
• Culture
• Sexuality
• Women
• Genitalia
• Art
• Iconography
• 1700-2000
• Anatomy

Subject (fr)

• Généralités -- Iconographie
• Médecine
• Illustration
• Sciences
• Culture
• Sexualité
• Femmes
• Organes génitaux
• Art
• Iconographie
• 1700-2000
• Anatomie

Review of

19920401-00422397, 19920401-00422398

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920401-00422399

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