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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind: 'A phenomenal book' - Guardian
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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
A trailblazing and inspiring collection of essays on art, feminism, and psychology by the internationally bestselling novelist Siri Hustvedt
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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, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, 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.
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Siri Hustvedt's A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women receives high praise for its incisive intelligence, humor, and imagination. Critics laud the blend of personal perspective with erudite analysis, noting her exploration of gender, art, and the human condition. The writing is celebrated for being cerebral yet deeply felt, offering comforting demystification and an engaging examination of complex subjects with warmth and curiosity.
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ISBN: 9781473638907
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 July 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sceptre
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 40.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 576
About the Author
Siri Hustvedt's first novel, The Blindfold, was published by Sceptre in 1993. Since then she has published The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American, The Summer Without Men and The Blazing World, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014 and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of the poetry collection Reading To You, The Shaking Woman: A History of My Nerves, and four collections of essays - Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting, A Plea for Eros and Living, Thinking, Looking.
Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and in 2012 was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. She delivered the Schelling Lecture in Aesthetics in Munich in 2010, the Freud Lecture in Vienna in 2011 and the opening keynote at the conference to mark Kierkegaard's 200th anniversary in Copenhagen in 2013, while her latest honorary doctorate is from the University of Gutenburg in Germany. She is also Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical School and has written on art for the New York Times, the Daily Telegraph and several exhibition catalogues.Also by Siri Hustvedt
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