The Female Body in Western Culture

Contemporary Perspectives

Edited by Susan Rubin Suleiman

    I particularly loved the section about art: it goes way beyond earlier polemics about male artists and female models to explore the representational life of women's bodies.
       --Nina Auerbach

    From its opening essay on female eroticism by Susan Suleiman to its closing with Charles Bernheimer's brilliant study of the imagery of disgust in Huysmans, this is a fascinating, unsettling, and important book. Scholars will find it essential, and all readers will find it absorbing.
       --Elaine Showalter

    A distinguished contribution to the continuing analysis of the 'question of woman.' The most original essays exemplify the new and provocative alliance between the feminist inquiry and post-structuralist approaches to the reading of texts.
       --Elaine Marks

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Susan Rubin Suleiman is the Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.