What’s feminist about makeup, fashion, hair, and beauty? In this live episode of thinking bodies, Anna Mudde and Kristin Rodier dive into Ann Cahill’s “Feminist Pleasure and Feminine Beautification” (2003) and ask what happens when we take beauty practices seriously as embodied, pleasurable, relational, and potentially feminist practices.
Along with contributors, we ask, is beautification always about the gaze—or can makeup, fashion, and other beauty practices also be sites of knowledge, connection, creativity, and care?
Ramanpreeet Bahra joined us as a consulting producer, this episode features reflections and contributions from Megan Dean, Helga Varden, Allison Wolf, Christine Hamel, Cressida Heyes, and Katy Fulfer. Listen as we discuss beauty practices as craft, communal care, feminist agency, maintenance work, and sites of objectification and resistance.
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Keywords: feminist philosophy, Ann Cahill, Feminist Pleasure and Feminine Beautification, beauty, beautification, feminism, pleasure, embodiment, body philosophy, feminist theory, objectification, agency, care, craft, gender, beauty standards.
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