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Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic

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Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic - Bronfen, Elisabeth
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The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.

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Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic 1992, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9780719038273

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