Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love

by Joanna Frueh

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520221141
• ISBN13: 9780520221147
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

gorgeous theory

Joanna Frueh's Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love was life changing for me, and I literally shook with feeling as I read the introduction. I highly recommend this book. I have never read hotter theory! She engages with the theme of beauty not simply to critique or invert, but instead embraces, explodes, examines and burrows within the veins of beauty to open expose the term to a more complex arena. Among other things, the author convinces us that as our experience and understanding grow richer we become increasingly beautiful.