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The Body in Time: Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France (Murphy Lecture Series)
The Body in Time Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France - Murphy Lecture Series
Author: Tamar Garb
The Body in Time looks at two different genres in relation to the construction of femininity in late nineteenth-century France: Degas's representation of ballet dancers and the transforming tradition of female portraiture. Class, gender, power, and agency are at stake in both arenas, but they play themselves out in different ways via diff...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780295987934
ISBN-10: 0295987936
Pages: 89
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
Book Type: Paperback
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