A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex,

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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.

Siri Hustvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works. She is a lover of art, the humanities, and the sciences. She is a novelist and a feminist. Her lively, lucid essays in A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women begin to make some sense of those plural perspectives.

Divided into three parts, the first section, â€œA Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women,â€ investigates the perceptual and gender biases that affect how we judge art, literature, and the world in general. Among the legendary figures considered are Picasso, De Kooning, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, the Guerrilla Girls, and Karl Ove Knausgaard.

The second part, â€œThe Delusions of Certainty,â€ is about the age-old mind/body problem that has haunted Western philosophy since the Greeks. Hustvedt explains the relationship between the mental and the physical realms, showing what lies beyond the argumentâ€”desire, belief, and the imagination.

The final section, â€œWhat Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition,â€ discusses neurological disorders and the mysteries of hysteria. Drawing on research in sociology, neurobiology, history, genetics, statistics, psychology, and psychiatry, this section also contains a profound and powerful consideration of suicide.

There has been much talk about building a beautiful bridge across the chasm that separates the sciences and the humanities. At the moment, we have only a wobbly walkway, but Hustvedt is encouraged by the travelers making their way across it in both directions. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women is an insightful account of the journeys back and forth.

Country	USA
Author	Siri Hustvedt
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781501141119
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfPages	577
PublicationDate	2016-12-06
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2016-12-06
Studio	Simon & Schuster

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

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