A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Editorial HODDER ARNOLD
Mainland Spain
- Publisher HODDER ARNOLD
- ISBN13 9781473638907
- ISBN10 1473638909
- Type BOOK
- Pages 576
- Collection GARDNERS #
- Published 2017
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
EssaysA Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Editorial HODDER ARNOLD
Mainland Spain
Book details
Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, Siri Hustvedt is also highly regarded as a writer of non-fiction whose insights are drawn from her broad knowledge in the arts, humanities, and sciences. In this trilogy of works collected in a single volume, Hustvedt brings a feminist, interdisciplinary perspective to a range of subjects. Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Susan Sontag and Knut Ove Knausgaard are among those who come under her scrutiny. In the book's central essay, she explores the intractable mind-body problem and in the third section, reflects on the mysteries of hysteria, synesthesia, memory, perception, and the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard. With clarity, wit, and passion, she exposes gender bias, upends received ideas, and challenges her reader to think again.