His Other Half (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Wendy Lesser
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- 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
Form and Content
In this collection of thematically related essays in criticism, Wendy Lesser makes her subject the portrayal of women in works of art created by men. What she hopes will emerge is a deeper understanding of men’s relationship to the feminine, as revealed through art. The context of His Other Half: Men Looking at Women Through Art, as Lesser sees it, is a climate of gender-theory obsession, a climate whose separatist pressures she resists. Specifically, she absolves the artists whom she discusses from the accusation of misogyny, although one of the...
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