The female body in the looking-glass: contemporary art, aesthetics and genderland

Cover -- Half-title -- Endorsement -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Looking-Glass Reality -- The looking-glass -- Mystery of looking -- The mirror -- The mirror stage and formation of identity -- Motility of the look -- Bonds -- The swallowed mirror and 'I will not be your mirror' -- Look! -- 2 Down the Skin-deep Hole -- She is to be looked at -- She must be beautiful -- Beauty -- Universal beauty -- The representational exterior -- Venus -- She is the form -- Use my body, drink me -- 3 White and Red Queens, or Venus and Medusa -- Manipulating the look and addressing difference -- The politics of vision -- The male gaze -- Ability and disability -- Venus and the politics of the fragment -- Medusa and the incomplete complete body -- The sublime and the ugly -- Original sin -- 4 The Cheshire Cat and the Disappearing Appearances -- The origin of species deconstructed -- Possibility for transformation -- The logic of lack -- Ungendered body -- Seeing through lack -- Multiplicity of female desire -- The judging controlling female gaze -- 5 A Rose Garden -- Genderland -- Seduction and desire -- 'Merger type sexuality' -- Fashioning the body -- Binary oppositions -- New sexual politics -- Dissolution of myths -- Waking up -- What is on the other side of the mirror? -- Dispersal of identities into trans -- 'Off with their heads' -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index.