Feminist Aesthetics

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Summary: Moisture in the reasoning capacity
Review: This book helps to prove that women are incapable of philosophy. This is the reason that there aren't any female philosophers. They were not intended for this, any more than men were intended to raise babies. I suppose they should get to try out, but this book is embarrassing in its poverty of reflection. It's like watching quadroplegic midgets who demand to play in the NBA. Give it up, girls. Biology is destiny.

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Summary: a bit dated, but extremely useful on revisioning aesthetics
Review: This little volume of mostly European feminists and artists presents a nice introduction to the question of women as makers of art rather than as objects of art. Linking the origins of feminist/womanist art with the idealized matriarchal cultures which produced earth-based festivals in the ancient world, the authors here suggest that just such a recovery of linkage of meaning, earth, and woman's body is needed to provide truly transformational art experiences. Contains the lovely statement (useful to feminist professors and others in regressive environments) that "Patriarchal values are meaningful only in their sublation"---suggesting that the purposes of women's art is to destabilize the assumed, authoritative meanings assigned to experience by malestream/mainstream culture.

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Summary: clarifications
Review: to the reader from tukwila, WA, who posted the first review:
just wanted to respond to your hostile statements and your claim that there are no female philosphers--well, you have succeeded in displaying your poverty as a reader because there are countless female philosphers and it is a shame that you don't know any. perhaps if you did, your perceptions wouldn't be so narrow and flawed.