Reconsidering the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Kay Boyle: Feminist Aesthetics and Modernism

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-72
Author(s):  
Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Aesthetics ◽  
Kay Boyle

scholarly journals Liberal Feminism, from Law to Art: The Impact of Feminist Jurisprudence on Feminist Aesthetics

Hypatia ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 214-235
Author(s):  
L. Ryan Musgrave
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Feminist Jurisprudence ◽  
Feminist Legal Theory ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
Critical Feminist ◽  
Legal Concepts ◽  
Feminist Aesthetics ◽  
The Impact

This essay explores how early approaches in feminist aesthetics drew on concepts honed in the field of feminist legal theory, especially conceptions of oppression and equality. I argue that by importing these feminist legal concepts, many early feminist accounts of how art is political depended largely on a distinctly liberal version of politics. I offer a critique of liberal feminist aesthetics, indicating ways recent work in the field also turns toward critical feminist aesthetics as an alternative.

Feminist Aesthetics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. W. Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Canon Formation ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Female Nude ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Feminist Aesthetics

This chapter summarizes central issues and themes in feminist philosophical aesthetics in the analytic tradition, although some continental figures are discussed. After introducing the interdisciplinary, intersectional and trans* inclusive approach that feminist aesthetics is starting to take, this essay discusses situatedness, artistic canon formation, humanism vs. gynocentrism, rewriting the philosophical canon, overcoming artworld biases, and the role of the aesthetic in systemic oppression. Specific topics to be discussed include the male gaze, the female nude, the concept of artistic genius, women’s artistic production, the purported universality of correct aesthetic judgment, the sex/gender distinction as it pertains to aesthetics and the arts, and body aesthetics.

Boyle, Kay (1902–1992)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryony Randall
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Kay Boyle

Kay Boyle was a novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist and political activist. Born in St Paul, Minnesota, she married a Frenchman, Richard Brault, in 1922 and moved to France with him the following year. She then lived in Europe for most of the next twenty years, and her early novels frequently reflect her own experiences as an expatriate. Languid and impressionistic in style, her early prose work focuses on relationships between men and women. In later life she also became heavily involved in politics and her work took on a more urgent social tenor; for example, the 1936 novel Death of a Man alerted readers to the threat of Nazism.

Collected Poems of Kay Boyle by Kay Boyle

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-167
Author(s):  
Charles Daughaday
Keyword(s):  
Kay Boyle
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