Happy Friday, sweeties! Here’s some reading material for your chilly weekend, wherever in the polar vortex you may reside. Lili Loofbourow, The Male Glance (VQR) - I’m still working through this piece, but it's totally for my cultural history nerds: “There’s a long history to grading aesthetics on a gendered curve.” Loofbourow deconstructs that curve, providing examples of the “quick” ways woman-created art can be dismissed before it has the chance to catch fire, leading to assumptions that “the effects these female texts produce are small, or imperfectly controlled, or, even worse, accidental.” And I especially love her providing language around “how blind we are to female intentionality” in performance.
Reading List: Cultural History Nerds, Rejoice!
Reading List: Cultural History Nerds…
Reading List: Cultural History Nerds, Rejoice!
Happy Friday, sweeties! Here’s some reading material for your chilly weekend, wherever in the polar vortex you may reside. Lili Loofbourow, The Male Glance (VQR) - I’m still working through this piece, but it's totally for my cultural history nerds: “There’s a long history to grading aesthetics on a gendered curve.” Loofbourow deconstructs that curve, providing examples of the “quick” ways woman-created art can be dismissed before it has the chance to catch fire, leading to assumptions that “the effects these female texts produce are small, or imperfectly controlled, or, even worse, accidental.” And I especially love her providing language around “how blind we are to female intentionality” in performance.