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The idea and ideal of "beauty" has been used to oppress women of different ages, body types, skin color, and physical ability. The theoretical discussion of aesthetics has also been conditioned by these same dynamics of power and oppression. In She Who Imagines, a diverse set of scholars challenges the exclusion and false definitions while constructing capacious ideas that discover beauty in unexpected places.
In these essays, the authors draw on a variety of arts media-painting, photography, portraiture, craftwork, poetry, and hip-hop music-thereby joining beauty to truth and, in a richly defining way, to the practice of justice. In a variety of ways all the essays link women's definitions of beauty with experiences of suffering and hence with the yearning for justice. All clearly prize resistance to degradation as an essential element of thought.
Contents
Contents
Foreword vii
Elizabeth A. Johnson
Introduction ix
Laurie Cassidy and Maureen H. O'Connell
Acknowledgments xix
Part 1: She Who Imagines
For the Beauty of the Earth: Women, Sacramentality, and Justice 3
Susan A. Ross
Theological Aesthetics and the Encounter with Tonantzin Guadalupe 17
Jeanette Rodriguez
Kollwitz: The Beauty and Brutality of the Pietà 37
Jayme M. Hennessy
Contemplating the Landscapes of Motherhood: The Discovery of Beauty in a Place We Thought We Knew 53
Colleen Mary Carpenter
Part 2: She Who Is Imagined
The Critical Aesthetics of Race 73
M. Shawn Copeland
The Jennifer Effect: Race, Religion, and the Body 87
Michelle A. Gonzalez
Picturing Suffering: The Moral Dilemmas in Gazing at Photographs of Human Anguish 103
Laurie Cassidy
AIDS, Accountability, and Activism: The Beauty of Sue Williamson's Resistance Art 125
Kimberly Vrudny
Part 3: She Who Imagines
Picturing Paradise: Imagination, Beauty, and Women's Lives in a Peruvian Shantytown 145
Rebecca Berru Davis
A Harsh and Dreadful Beauty: The Aesthetic Dimension of Dorothy Day's Ethics 161
Maureen H. O'Connell
Being Immaculate: Images of Oppression and Emancipation 181
Mary Ann Zimmer
The Feminine Face of God Is My Face: On the Empowerment of Female Self-Portraiture 205
Susie Paulik Babka
List of Contributors 225
