His Other Half (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Wendy Lesser
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Criticism (art, literature, film)
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, History, Sociology, Arts
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Philosophy or philosophers, Gender roles, Psychology or psychologists, Self, Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Novelists, Feminism, Women, Creative process, Painting or painters, Photography or photographers, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Men, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Androgyny
The essays contained in His Other Half are parts of a complicated series of dialogues Wendy Lesser carries on: with various “Men Looking at Women Through Art” (as the subtitle indicates); with the women in this art, often silent or imperfectly understood, whom she teases into conversation; and with feminist critics who tend to be suspicious of, if not hostile to, male representations of the female. Lesser seems equally unhappy with those critics (and artists) who ignore, denigrate, or otherwise restrict woman’s central role in art and life and those who defend and praise...
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