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Monster/Beauty
2023
Overview
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 youth with beauty
toward an aesthetic for the fully erotic human being. A lush
combination of autobiography, theory, photography, and poetry, this
book continues to develop the ideas about the erotic, beauty, older
women, sex, and pleasure that Frueh first addressed in Erotic
Faculties. Monster/Beauty examines these issues using a
provocative, often explicit, set of examples. Frueh admiringly
looks at the bodies and mindsets of midlife female bodybuilders,
rethinks the vampire, and revises our ideas about traditional
models of beauty, such as Aphrodite. Above all, she boldly brings
her personal experience into the text, weaving her reflections on
female sensuality with contemporary theory. These linked essays are
as much a performance as they are a discussion, breaking down the
barriers between the personal and the academic, and the erotic and
the intellectual. Frueh writes passionately and beautifully, and
the result is a much-needed exploration of beauty myths and taboos.
