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Gender and genius : towards a feminist aesthetics /

By:

Battersby, Christine, 1946-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1989Description: viii, 192 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0253311268
0253205786

Subject(s): LOC classification:

BH301 C84B37 1990

Summary: From the back of the book "During the middle Ages and the Renaissance, women were blamed for having too much passion, imagination, and sexual appetite. by the late eighteenth century. however, these qualities had been revalued and appropriated for male artists. The virtues attributed to the Romantic 'genius' made him like a woman but not a woman. He belonged to a third, supermale sex. As new and old concepts of women and genius clashed, there evolved a rhetoric of sexual apartheid which today still affects our perception of cultural achievement."

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Mixed media	Carleton University, AVRC	Archive of Canadian Women Artists	SP456 - Collections Room	BH301.C84 B37 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	16050188076

"First published by the Women's Press Limited, London, 1989"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-179) and index.

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