A startlingly powerful collaboration reimagines female beauty What
is beauty without pain? Compromise is what our culture offers
women: cinching, pinching, cutting, shaving, scraping, starving,
and, of course, lifting and separating, all in service of one
sharply circumscribed model purported to be pleasing-but not to
most, if any, women. This extraordinary book reimagines beauty at
its most provocative and fetishized locus: the female breast.
Artist, writer, and scholar Joanna Frueh scrutinizes ideals of
beauty and sensuality, often motivated by her experiences with
breast cancer. Frances Murray, her friend and collaborator for more
than thirty years, documents Frueh's journey of unapologetic beauty
in a series of intimate, dazzlingly original photographs before and
after her bilateral mastectomy and chemotherapy. Reflecting with
insight, directness, and humor-and with contributions from a breast
surgeon, an oncologist, and artists and scholars who have had
breast cancer-Frueh arrives at a new, liberating view of beauty and
of the sensual pleasure found in transformative self-acceptance.
Central to this reckoning is her documentation and critique of the
notion of hyperbeauty (the flash of flesh appeal, hyperthin,
hyperfeminine, hyperbosomy, hypersexy, and hyperyoung sold at the
global 24/7 beauty bazaar) and her playful, inventive presentation
of tools for remaking minds and hearts disfigured by self-denying
ideals. In its bracing critique, passionate argument, and
compelling narrative-all illustrative of its own unapologetic
beauty-this collaboration is a performance of startling power,
stirring to consider and a pleasure to behold.
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