| Volltext: | Index Page numbers in italics denote photographs. abjection, 36-37П28; cult of, 135; erotics of shame and, 289; feminism and, 133, 133П7, 136; monster/beauty vs., 19; of mother, 133, 134—36, 145П14; unadulterated pleasure vs., 31. See also damage, erotics of; shame acne, 3, 6 advertising: for gyms, 73; for hair coloring, 281; hair removal and, 21; narratives of loss and, 15; for perfume, 250-51, 253, 264П11; for personal style, 269. See also commodification aesthetic/erotic self-creation: and aesthetic/erotic field, defined, 2; of Altomare, 93-94; Aphroditean style and, 269; cultural practices as affecting, 267; as discipline, 262; "GLAM Manifesto" and, 31—32; individual vs. community, 29; models of, 11, 20 (.see also Aphrodite; bodybuilding; stepmother-stepchild pedagogical model; vampires); nonproductivity and, 81; perfection vs., 251; professors and, 161, 180; as ridiculous, 20, 40; Sade's characters and, 294-95; self-love resulting from, 2, 34m; substitution for, 223; technology of self and, 248; time and, 81; will to pleasure and (see will to pleasure). See abo monster/ beauty aesthetics, 119; control and, 70; humiliation and, 61; lowlife, 290-91, 297П5; nonproductivity and, 81; postmodern, 281, 291; of power, 101; of power vs. fragility, 68-69; prosaic, 39, 40-41; Sadeian, 290-91; as transgressive/ transcendant, 119 Africans, primitivized images of, 115, 261 age: acting one's, enforcement of, 63, 77, 138, 262, 271-72; Blonde Bunny Goddess cult and, 275, 277; gender and cross-generational attraction, 232—34; irrelevance of, 233-34; stepmothers and, 233 ageism, 4; feminist, 68 agency: abjection as devastating, 136; aesthetic concentration and, 66; of Aphrodite, 270; Blonde Bunny Goddess cult and lack of, 275; corporeal, 5,15-16, 24Ш4; display and, 74, 96 323 I N D E X aging: anaphrodisiac body and, 60—71; atonement for being female and, 27; and bad body, 199; dyeing hair blonde and, 280; erotic power and, 232-34; "good genes" and, 4,63; gracefully, 60,223, 272; invisibility and, 15,16, 64, 71,91; as loss (see loss, narratives of); and professor's body, 159; shame and sexuality and, 67—68,71 Albright, Madeleine, 270 Alpers, Svetlana, 87П57 Altomare, Emilia (bodybuilder),^, 77, 81,84, 92, 93-94, 96,116 Amazons, 97,105, 261, 266П32 amorous relations. See consensual sexual relations; pedagogical erotics amusement, pleasure vs., 179,186, 212 Angier, Natalie, 87П47 anorexia: bodybuilders and, 69; deadening of embodied pleasure and, 23; monstrous female and, 36П26; perfection claimed through, 250; Wolf and, 18, 32. See also dieting Antoni, Janine, 295 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 17 aphrodisia: of ancient Greece, 247—48, 263П3; Aphroditean charisma and, 271; Blonde Bunny Goddess cult vs., 271; reconfiguration of, 247 aphrodisiacs', body as, 11, 64-65, 66; mistaken as substance, 9 aphrodite, 248, 250, 253, 269 Aphrodite: aesthetic/erotic wit and, 5; agency of, 270; ambrosia of, 253, 275; as aphrodisiac, 248, 263П4; and Ares, 127, 129, 131; ars erotica of, 247—48, 257, 263П3; bathing and, 247, 255, 263П3; as complement not critic, 41, 263П4; cross-dressing for, 260-66П30; decoration/costume of, 120, 251, 254, 267; and Eros, 128; and erotic mother, J37 141-42; as erotic stimulant, 9; as ethic, 258; film iconolatry of, 270, 273-74; and gardens, 39, 41, 235-36, 239-40; grace of, 248, 264П6; Greeks and, 39, 41, 235-36, 247, 263П4, 270, 277; hares as offerings to, 277; inter-corporeality of, 132,134,137; liminal-ity of, 231; and narratives of loss, 262; nudity of, 61-62, 254, 255, 259, 265П26; as passionate wife, 248-49, 258, 270, 273" patriarchal bias against, 263П3; as perfection vs. confidence, 249—50; Phaedra and, 218, 228; radiance of, 267, 268, 273, 282; Romans and, 39, 41, 255, 263П4; sentimentalism of, 132; and sin, disbelief in, 129; size of, 251, 254, 273, 283П5; and training, 141. See also aesthetic/erotic self-creation; monster/beauty Aphrodite Amazonia, 261, 266П32 Aphrodite of Knidos, vii, 61; as aphrodisiac, 248; body size of, 251, 254; copies of, 251, 254, 255, 259, 265Ш7; decoration of, 251, 267; marginaliza-tion of, 263П3; as model for nude, 61-62; púdica gesture of, 90-91, 94, 255, 265П17, 271; story of, according to Pliny the Elder, 263П4 Aphrodite of Rhodes, 250 Aphrodite Salacia, 260, 266П28 apples, 235, 236, 239-40 Arachnaphobia, 102, 104, 118 Arcade, Penny, 30 arousal: childbirth's similarity to, 128; as genderless, 81—82. See also pleasure art: arrogance of pleasure and, 30-31; beauty as rhetoric in, 73; display and, 73; garden symbolism and, 236; mannerists, 128; meaning of, 314; púdica gesture in, 271; vs. puritanism, 165; Sadeian aesthetic and, 290; suprema-tists, 130; surrealists, 290; transgres-siveness and (see transgressiveness). See also Aphrodite of Knidos; art history; nude, female art history: lecture room of, 193,194, 196; professors of, and the obscene, 196-97, 198-99 Asians, beauty ideal and, 251, 252, 264Ш1 attraction, 157—58. See also arousal; lust authority: body as undermining female intellectual, 162—64, 196; crushes and, 206; of professorial body, 155-56, 176- See also power autoeroticism, 247; bodybuilding and, 93; breakage of, 142; hypermuscular performance and, 93—96; masturbation, 4,128-29, 141, 247 Baartman, Saartjie, 115, 261 bad body: aging and difficulty of being, 199; defined, 168—69; female professors as, 168,169,194,195-99, 209-ю, 214П5, 324 I N D E X 2i6, 227; gaze invited by, 194,195-96; "overweight" as, 191; stepmother-stepchild model and, 216, 227 bad boy, 168-69 bad girl, 168—69, 173n4T Bardot, Brigitte, 270, 275 Barthes, Roland, 82, 292 Barton, David, 73 Bataille, Georges, 289—90, 292, 296 bathing, 153; ancient Greece and, 247, 255, 263П3; Aphrodite and, 247, 255, 263П3 Battersby, Christine, 120 Bauch, Christa (bodybuilder), j6, 84, 96, 118—19 Baudelaire, Charles, 72, 85Ш4, 129, 290 Beautifuckation, 32—33 beauty: acceptance of one's own, 10, 12, 13-14, 23; being hated for, 13,137,138; as bizarrerie, 72; as choice, 64; feminists concerned with, 3, 4; ideal Western (see beauty ideal); luxury of, 257; meaning of, 257, 258, 265П20; meritocracy of, 7, 35m 1; monster (see monster/beauty); as process of becoming, 258-62, 265П23; as taboo subject, 3, 4-6, 10, 12, 18 beauty ideal: abject mother and, 135; blondeness as (see Blonde Bunny Goddess cult; blondes and blondeness); charisma as destroying, 64; class and, 32, 251; cleanliness and, 250, 251—52, 255, 280; as construction, 8, 168; distance and, 12,13; gender reinforced by, 6; luck of birth and, 4, 168; as male defined, 23, 114,138, 252; monster/beauty compared to, 2—3, 13, 14; paradox of, 3, 5, 20; race and (see race); regular features and, 4; as still picture (see perfection); as visual ideal, 2, 12, 20, 22-23;as y°uth, 64, 74, 232.—34,2:54—55 Beauvoir, Simone de, 290 Bellmer, Hans, 290 Benjamin, Jessica, 28, 135 Bergman, Sandahl, I I I Berlow, Doris, 284m 8 Bettelheim, Bruno, 221, 223, 224, 241П27 bizarrerie, 70, 72, 73, 83 black, as color, 85Ш4, 105, 123П36. See also race Blige, Mary J., 281 Blonde Bunny Goddess cult, 270; as bombe vs. bombshell, 275-76; as comedy, 273-74; as diminution of Aphrodite, 273, 277; as feminizing, 107, 275, 277, 280, 281; hypermuscular performance and, 99, 107,114, 280, 281; as insidious, 281; insufficiency of model, 275; as little beauty queen, 273, 277; as pacifying fears of powerful women, 274; race and, 18, 280—81, 283nni4,i5, 283-84П16; reproductivity as defended by, 271—72, 273; sacrifice of, 277—78, 283ШО blondes and blondeness: as beauty ideal (see Blonde Bunny Goddess cult); brunettes compared to, 270; and dyeing hair, 21, 107, 267, 280-81, г8зпп14,15, 283-84П16; meanings of, 267, 270, 280—81 Blonsky, Marshall, 59 blood, vampires and, 24-25, 304-6 Bloom, Allan, 212-13 body: agency and (see agency); anaphro-disiac, 60-71; as aphrodisiac, u, 64-65, 66; archetypal power of, 121Ш3; capacity of, women and, 69, 86П30; chaos as natural to female, 61, 62, 133; costumes of (see costumes; nudity); deadening of, 181; decorporealization of (see body, decorporealization of); ease in, 71-72; erotic friendship with, 137, 141, 142; explicit, 100; fascism of, 93; as female, definition of, 161, 163; hermaphroditic, 77; intercorporeality of, 131-32, 134,137; loquacity of, 95, 121Ш2; primitivized, 115-16,125П69; of professor (see professor's body); repressed and scandalous in female, 196, 198-99; rhetoric of, 190-93. See also body of content; body of love; mind; monster/beauty; soul-and-mind- inseparable-from-body body, decorporealization of, 22-23, 33—34, 78; in parent-teacher model, 225, 226, 242П32; professors and, 150, 159, 160, 162-64, 165-67,179-80, 181 bodybuilders, female: blondeness and, 280, 281; bulk and (see bulk); concealment of bodies by, 72, 108; costumes of, 89, 97,102, 105, 106, 108, 109-10, 114, 280, 281; primitivist ideas about, 115—16, 125П69; professors as, 160—61 325 I N D E X bodybuilders, midlife, 59—60, 84; aging and, 66, 68, 77; attractiveness and energy and, 63-64; as bizarrerie, 70, 72,73; black, representation of, 112, 114-16; discomfort in observers of, 63, 68, 89; display and, 73—74; embodiment of, 78; as exhibitionistic, 68; love of muscles and, 92; vs. matron model, 65, 89; motivations for, 81; narcissism of, 78-80; in performance (see hyper-muscular performance); as pinups, 89, 90, 92, 99-100, 104-5, 108,119; power aesthetic of, 68-69. $ee a^° aesthetic/ erotic self-creation; monster/beauty bodybuilding: artistic process and, 70, 71,79,119; competition vs. noncompetition, 69, 93; corporeal sovereignty and, 15-16, 24П14; dieting and, 80, 82, 86П34, 88nn6i,7i, 119; as enjoyable, 79, 89П58; as erotic and sensual, 71—72, 83-84,92-94; male promoters of, 107, 123П25, 281, 284П18; mixed responses to, 59; motivations for, 33,63,73-74, 8t, 83-84, 108, 313-14. See also muscle body of content: conventional beauty distinguished from, 66; as exceeding the visual, 24; Grande Odalisque as, 82-83; meaning of beauty and, 258; as term, 37П40 body of love: cruelty as weakening, 131; as healing, 141; monster/beauty as (see monster/beauty); regulation and maintenance and, 10, 11, 32-33; as state of satisfaction, 248 Bolin, Anne, 86 Booth, Wayne, 170-71П8 Bordo, Susan: on arousal vs. erection, 82; on body as site of struggle, 33; on bodybuilding, 69—70; on body practices, 24; on dieting as control, 32; on perfection, 264П7; on weight loss, 190-91 Botox treatment, 4, 35П6 bras and bralessness, 159,164,165, 166 breasts: bras and bralessness, 159, 164, 165,166; implants, 105,107-8; professors and, 164-65,169,173П43,194, 226, 227. See also nipples brownie recipe, 295-96 Browning, Tod, 309 Bruneau, Sharon (bodybuilder), 108 brunettes, 270 Bryson, Norman, 65, 80, 82 bulk: comportment as shaping, 109,116; drugs and, 119; fear and denial of, 108, 109, 110-12; gender imperative and, 106—7, 108—9, no—12, 119-20; as majestic, 112, 116—17; male association of, 106^7; pregnancy and, 106, 116—17; self-respect and, 116—17; styl-ization of, 108—9. See also bodybuilding; hypermuscular performance Buszek, Maria-Elena, 104 Butler, George, 107 Canova, Antonio, 259 Capitoline Aphrodite, 259, 265Ш7 Carter, Angela, 273-74 Caws, Mary Ann, 199 Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World, 97—99, pS, 112-14, i гj, 118-19 celebrities: as picture perfect, 1; professors as, 157, 162, 171П18. See also film Chapkis, Wendy, 6,17; as educator, 190, 191,196,197; on erotic fantasy, 33, 38П76; on inadequacy, 12; the personal and, 6,18, 19, 21; on pleasure and desire, 28—29 Chapman, Patsy (bodybuilder), 108 charis, 264П6, 272, 274 charisma, 3,64, 248, 264П6, 272 Cher, 262 Chicago, Judy, 197 childbirth. See pregnancy and childbirth Chizevsky, Kim (bodybuilder), 281 chocolate: defense of, 295—96; as nauseating horror, 291—92; pleasure as, 31, 292; Sade and, 295. See also pleasure Cicciolina, 274, 277 Cinderella fairy tale, 221 Cixous, Hélène, 237—38, 239; The Name of Oedipus, 237—38, 239 Clark, Kenneth, 61-62,79,105,106 class: beauty and, 32, 251; lowlife aesthetic and, 290 cleanliness: beauty ideal and, 250, 251—52, 255, 280; education and life of mind and, 159, 160,167, 209—10; of female nude, 62; monster/beauty vs., 254, 281-82; mother-teacher and, 215; perfume ads and, 251; and pleasure, denial of, 213; of reproductivity, 128; of whiteness, 251, 252, 270, 280, 307 326 I N D E X colors: black, 85П14, 105, 123П36; ecru, 253—54; of fetish fashion, 105, 123П36; flings of, 3; gold (see gold and golden-ness); red (see red); white (see whites and whiteness) commodification: arts of love vs., 257; of beauty, 32; mismatching codes of, as GLAM work, 31-32; spectacle and, 25—26, 31. See also advertising community: aesthetic/erotic self-creation and, 29; arts of love and, 256-57. See also social transformation complexion, 3, 7 compliments, 7, 9—10 concentration, aesthetic, 64-65, 66, 69, 79 confidence, 8, 250 consensual erotics. See pedagogical erotics consensual sexual relations: amorous relations as term, 183—84, 186-87, 188Ш5; consent as issue in, 170П3,183—85; Frueh and, 152, 185—86; Gallop and, 149, 158, 170П3, 183, 184—85; prohibition of, 182—84 consent: capacity for, as denied, 183-84; as term, 182 Corliss, Richard, 110 cosmetics: advertising for (see advertising); ambrosial balms vs., 253; flawless skin and, 7, 35П10; Frueh and, 153, 282; large pores and, 7. See also perfume cosmetic surgery, 20, 27, 32, 33, 67,105, 280 costumes: of Aphrodite, 120, 251, 254; bodybuilders and, 89, 97,102, 105, 106, 108, 109—10, 114, 280, 281; concealment through, 72; "Dressing Aphrodite" performance, 247, 259—60; dyke drag, 21; "Giving a Fuck" performance, 289; nudity revealed by, 254, 255; of professors, 159—60, 161, 163, 164, 165,176, 181, 192; stepmothers and, 223; "Vampiric Strategies" performance, 300, 313, 319. See also nudity Creavalle, Laura (bodybuilder), 107, 270, 280,281 crone figure, 60, 89—90 Crusher, Dr. Beverly (Star Trek character), 206 crushes, 205-6 cunt: of Aphrodite, 259; as monster/beauty, 199; nude as expanded to, 198-99; as reclaimed term, 197. See also vagina; vulva cunt art, 197 Cupid. See Eros damage, erotics of, 291; expulsions of body in, 296-97; monstrous self-portrayals and, 19-20; pleasure as arrogance in, 30-31, 292, 295; reality principle and, 292; Sade as influence in, 289—91, 292, 293—95, 29^ sentiment as obscenity in, 291—92; shame and, 31, 291, 296 Debord, Guy, 25 Dennis, Diana (bodybuilder), 24, 77, 84, 96, 102—6, 103,116, 118 desire: of bodybuilders, 68; feminism and, 26—33, 2IIi f°r intellectual work, 176, 187П2; to please, as deriving pleasure, 22; problematization of, 27—28; sexual harassment policies and, 184; validation and authority of, 184, 186. See also arousal; lust; pleasure dessert, 30, 213 dieting: beauty ideal and, 19, 32, 33, 36П26, 69, 256—57, 265П20; of bodybuilders, 69, 80, 82, 86П34, 88nn6i,7i, 119. See also anorexia Doane, Mary Ann, 28 Dobbins, Bill, 104-5, io7J io^ hi; u9 280,281 dominatrix: accusations/fantasies of, and unapologetic woman, 209-10; Amazon as subcategory of, 105; bizarre beauty and, 72. See abo fetish fashion Doryphorus, 263П3 Dracula (Stoker), 301, 306, 307, 309, 310, 311—12 Duelos, Mme. (Sade character), 289, 291, 293, 294-95; Frueh and, 292-93, 294, 298Ш7 Dudley, Russell: and bedroom chair, 291, 292,297; dating Frueh, 178-79,186, 316, 318; eroticism outside marriage and, 130-31; gardening and, 39, 129, 131, 204, 260, 282; as monster/beauty, 12-13,128, 260; photographs by, 39-41, 327 I N D E X Dudley, Russell (continued) 43-64; as rock climber, 314-15, 318; sexual relationship with Frueh, 131-31,282,315,317 Duncan, Carol, 161, 165,166,168, 175-76,192, 197 Dziech, Billie Wright, 169m, 232 Eaderesto, Jerry, 99 Eisler, Riane, 134 Ernst, Max, 290 Eros, 127-28,129,130, 236; communal, 132; as sweetness of life, 213; as unpredictable, 211, 248 eroticism: Bataille on, 289-90, 292; conventional, midlife bodybuilders and, 89-90, 99—102,104, 107-8,122П23, I23nn25,27; fuckability vs., 137; gardening and, 235, 237; relations of, as consequential, 158, 175; slowness in, 180, 187П6; touch and {see touch). See also desire; pleasure erotics: of damage {see damage, erotics of); of shame, 289-90, 296; visual, politics of, 196; vocal, 209 erotic weight, 15-16; cruelty as weakening, 131; older women and, 90—91, 95-96 erotogenic, as antidote to photogenic, 40, 67. See also aphrodisiacs Etcoff, Nancy, 36П19 ethics: aphrodisia as, 248, 263П3; arts of love and, 256-57, 258; of work, 211 Euripides, 218, 225, 227, 228 Evolution F, 59, 63, 97,122Ш7 Fabulous Forties, 94-96; Galion, Claudia (nude model), 94, 95-96; Walter, Jeri-lyn (nude model), 78, 94 facial hair, 1-2, 6,18, 21, 36П21 fairy tales, 218, 219-20,221-22, 223, 224, 237,239 Faludi, Susan, 25 fashion: fetish, 105,109,123П36, 210; style vs., 254 fashion magazines: age and perfection and, 254—55;on bodybuilders' size, 112; class and, 32; and flawless skin, 7, 35П10; and meritocracy of beauty, 7, 35ml; and narratives of loss, 15; perfume ads in, 250—51, 264ml; race and, 1 !4 15, 264П11; as reinforcing beauty ideal, 4 fashion models: as imperfect, 7—8; perfection claimed by, 250; as shrunken women, 109, 250; as unattainable goal, 68; as youth, symbol of, 69 fathers, as erotic consort, 129—30, 204, 236 father-teacher: as assumed norm, 151—53, 155—56, 160, 163, 196; body of, 155-56, 160, 226; erotic power of, 232—33; infantilization of students by, 225-26; as inserter of knowledge, 152-53,169, 226; mother-teacher as complement to, 226, 231; sexual harassment and, 149, 154, 169—70Ш. See also parent-teacher model; professors; stepmother-stepchild pedagogical model feminazis, 209, 210 femininity: bodily self-reference and, 116; construction of, 82; dieting and control of, 19, 36П26; fitness and, 108—9, 110—12; hormonal control of, 19, 36П26; hypermuscular performance and loss of, 99-100; male artists as appropriating, 120; midlife bodybuilders and, 89 feminism: and abjection, 133, 133П7, 136; ageism in, 68; art of, terms for, 197; backlash against, 25; and the beauty game, 21—22; and bodybuilding, 99—102,122nn22,23, 12зпп25,2б; as depressing, 2t\, 212; and desire, 26-33, t^4 21Ii anc^ ftsplay 72—73 96; and divine female, 258; Gallop and, 155; heterosexual disparagement within, 90, 121П3; and longing for beauty, 66; and male gaze {see at gaze); meaning of, 212; model of feminist beauty and, 66—67; and mon-strousness, 18—21; and the mother, 132-33, 144П6, 144—45П7; mother-teacher model and, 167,169,172П22, 226; pedagogical theory, 155,159,169, 196, 207-8, 215-16, 234, 242П33; and perfection, 250, 254, 255, 264П7; performance art theory, 96—97, 100, 101, 121-22Ш4; personal as political, 177; poststructuralist, 216; revisualizing beauty, 21-26; Sade and, 290, 296; self-representation and, 27-28; and self-surveillance, 163; sexual harassment policy and, 183; and space, use of, 116; subversive/hegemonic analytic framework of, 100,101,122П22; 328 I N D E X as transformative, 211—12; visibility and, 25; and visual erotics, politics of, 196; wholeness sought by, 133 fetish fashion, 105, 109,123П36, 210. See also dominatrix Fierstein, Laurie (bodybuilder), 79, 81, 84, 87П58, 120; and Celebration, 97—99,51.?, 112,142; feminism of, 97, 142; and the sensual, 92; as trainer, 142 film: Blonde Bunny Goddess cult and, 270, 273—74, 275; cross-generational attraction portrayed in, 233; female monsters in, 19; stasis of beauty in, 1; vampires in, 301, 308, 309, 310, 311 Firestone, Shulamith, 18 fish: goddess and, 265П24, 266П28; smell of, 251, 252, 258, 265П24, 272 fitness: gender imperative and, 106—7, 108-9, n°—12; us imperative, 70; promotion of image for female bodybuilders, 106—7, n9 I23n25 toning as style and, 108—10; vampires and, 302-3, 304, 313—15. See also bodybuilding flexibility, 63, 71, 303 flirtation, 231—32, 234—35 flowers: Aphrodite and, 39, 41, 235-36, 239-40; Frueh and, 129, 131, 204, 252-53; Rossetti and, 129—30; as symbol of virginity, 312; vulva imagery and, 130 Fonda, Jane, 270 Foucault, Michel: on aphrodisia, 263П3; on Greek pedagogy, 151—52; on power and mastery of body, 73 Francis, Bev (bodybuilder), 107,112 Freud, Sigmund: castration anxiety, 19; child development, 134; dirt, 60; reality principle of (see reality principle) Friedrich, Paul, 128, 231, 258, гбзппз,4, 265П24 friendships: with body, 137, 141, 142; as term, 137; between women, eroticism and, 137—41; between women, unfriendliness and, 137,138,140 Frigga, 259 Frueh, Erne, 46; as erotic consort, 129, 204, 236 Frueh, Florence, 46; brownie recipe of, 295-96; as erotic consort, 128-29, 132, •34, 136-37, 203-4 fuck, giving vs. not giving a, 297 fuckability, 61, 137 Gallop, Jane, 24; appearance of, 162, 171ШО, 172П28,192, 200П5, 209-10; as bad girl, 168; consensual sexual relations and, 149,158,170П3,183, 184-85; as educator, 154—55, 196, 197; Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, 149—50, 153, 154-55, I70nn2,3, 183; and pleasure in learning, 154—55; and politics of experience, 28; and Sade, 290; sexiness and, 153, 162; sexual harassment and, 149-50,167, 170П2, 183-84,186, 188ni 5; on teacher's breasts, 172П22, I73n43 Gamman, Lorraine, 24 gardens and gardening: Aphrodite and, 39, 41, 235—36, 239—40; as articulation of spirit, 257-58; as dually gendered, 236; of Dudley and Frueh, 39, 129, 131, 204, 260, 282; as erotic metaphor, 235, 237; as pedagogical model, 2-34—37, 239-40 Gassel, Nathalie (bodybuilder), 124П41 gay men, 234 gaze: bad body as reconstructing, 194, 195-96; consensual erotic, 194; cost of, 239, 240; erotic, 74; female nude as reconstructing, 198; gardens and, 237; lust for self and, 72; male, 24, 94-95, 193, 236; as pedagogical tool, 198; professorial, 193, 194,195; shame and, 194-95; student, 193-95, 198; women's comparative looking, 7-8; women's self-sufficiency and the, 94-95; of younger men and older women, 237—39. See also spectacle; visibility gender: age and cross-generational attraction, 232-34; amorous stepmother as crossing, 226-27; amorous stepson and, 236-37; arousal vs. erection and, 8, 82; beauty ideology reinforcing, 6; Blonde Bunny Goddess cult and, 277; bodybuilders as destabilizing, 69, 81-83,100-102; bodybuilders as trapped by, 89; dieting of bodybuilders and, 82, 88П71; gardening and, 236; Grande Odalisque and, 82-83; hypermuscular performance and, 89-90, 95, 99-102,104,107-8, 122П23,123ПП25,27; muscle and, 81-82; spectacle and liberation from, 24, 26 329 I N D E X gender-bending, юВ Gilmore, Leigh, 187П5, 196-97, 212, 213 "GLAM Manifesto" (Steinmetz and Peterson), 31-32 goddess: as feminist project, 258; fish and, 265П24, 266П28; smell of, 258, 265П24. See also Aphrodite gold and goldenness: Amazons and, 97, 266П32; Aphrodite and, 97, 120, 251, 254, 267, 268; dyeing hair blonde and, 280; reproductivity as, 271; of skin, 249, 280, 282. See also colors good body: defined as well-behaved, 159, 172П22; professors and, 159,165, 225 good girl, 169, 217 grace: of Aphrodite, 248, 264П6; Greek idea of, 271 graceful aging, 60,223,272 grandmothers: body of, 62; complexion of, 7; pleasure denied to, 89-90, 138. See also crone figure; matron model Greece, ancient: and Aphrodite, 39, 41, 235-36, 247, 263П4, 270, 277; ars erotica of, 247-48, 258, 263П3; and bathing, 247, 255,263П3; and hares, 277, 283Ш0; incest in, 230, 242П50; and marriage, 228, 233, 242П43; misogyny of, 220, 225, 227; nudity and, 254; pedagogy of, 151-52; Phaedra myth (see Phaedra); women of, 41 Greer, Germaine, 18, 64, 65 Grumet, Madeleine, 159,195 Gubar, Susan, 35П18 Gullette, Margaret Morganroth, 65, 91, 99 hah, 3 5 African Americans and, 36П25, 280-81, 28ЗПШ4,15, 283-84Ш6; blonde (see Blonde Bunny Goddess cult; blondes and blondeness); body, 1-2; dyeing of, 21, 107,267, 280-81, 283nni4,t5,183-84П16; facial, 1-2, 6, 18, 2t, 36П21; feminizing tactics of bodybuilders and, 107, 280, 281; removal of, 1—2, 21, 32, 67, 134 Hansen, Patti, 7 Harlow, Jean, 270,274 Harriman, Pamela, 270 Havelock, Christine Mitchell, 263П3, 265П26 Hawkins, Joan, 214П5 H.D., 218, 219, 227, 228, 236 Hellman, Lillian, 206 Hénaff, Maurice, 298m 7 Herzog, Werner, 309 Hesse, Eva, 73 heterosexuality: Blonde Bunny Goddess cult and, 275; bodybuilding and imperative of, 110— 12 heterosexual sex, 95; feminism as disparaging, 90,121П3,127; hypermus-cular performance and, 95; intercourse, 82, 131 Heywood, Leslie, 35Ш4, 69, 80,101, 123ПП25,27, 255 Hickey, Dave, 73, 165,168 Hill, Anita, 183 Hippolyta, 227, 230 Hippolytus, of myth and retellings, 218, 225, 227, 228-30, 231-32, 233, 238-39, 241Ш2, 242П31 Hippolytus (Euripides), 218, 225, 227, 228 Hippolytus Temporises (H.D.), 218, 219, 227, 228, 236 Hixson, Kathryn, 290 Homeric Hymns, 251, 255, 260 hooks, bell: on body functions in classroom, 159; on denial of body, 181,195; on dyeing hair blonde, 28зши4,15; on eroticism in classroom, 157; on the professor's body, 155-56,161,179, 181; on self-created beauty, 257 hormonal control, 19, 27, 36П26, 84П2 Hottentot Venus, 115,261 hypermuscular performance, 89—90; Always Aphrodite, 91, 94—95i Arach-naphobia, 102,104, 118; blondeness and, 107, 281; body loquacity and, 95; bulk and (see bulk); Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle i n t h e W o r l d , 9 7 — 9 9 , 9 8 , 1 1 2 — 1 4 , t t j , 118—19; comportment and, 109,114; conventionalized eroticism and, 89—90, 99—102, 104, 107—8, 122П23, I23nn25,27; Evolution F, 59, 63, 97, 122Ш7; feminist performance art and, 96-99, 100,101; fitness vs. (see fitness); as gendered, 95; pinup image and, 89, 90, 92, 99—100, 104—5, I0^ 119; power of, 121Ш3; and space, use of, 116, 125П71; trope of sexually vital midlife woman and, 92; The Women, 104—5, t°7, 108, in, 280, 281; wrestling as, 106, 124П41 330 I N D E X incest: stepmothers and, 228, 230, 242П50; as term, 128 In Praise of the Stepmother (Vargas Llosa), 117, 118 intellectual work: authority in, female professors' bodies as undermining, 162—64, !9 ; desire for, and desirability of body, 176,187П2; the personal as informing, 177 intelligence: Blonde Bunny Goddess cult as neutralizing, 273, 274, 275; of females, misogyny and, 225; females and sexiness and, 152, 153, 162-63; in males, as sexy, 152, 170П6 intercourse, heterosexual, 82,131 intimacy, 12, 39,62 Irigaray, Luce, 27, 28, 258, 265П23 Japanese Americans, 252 Jocasta, 230—31, 237—38 Jocasta (Molinaro character), 117—18, 237 Johanna (surrogate daughter), 15,186, 217-18, 222—23, 224, 278, 280 justice, beauty and, 34m Kahlo, Frida, 70, 73 Kahn, Robbie, 128, 133—34, 135, 139-40, 141, I45nni3,i4 Kane, Sarah, 241m 2 Kawakubo, Rei, too, 101 Kelly, Mary, 22, 65 Kerrigan, William, 152-53,169-70Ш Kimball, Roger, 163, 170П2 Klein, Alan M., 88, 100,119, 122П23 Koons, Jeff, 274, 277 Kristeva, Julia, 28П28,133,135,136, 144П7 Lakoff, Robin Tolmach, 3, 4,5,17,18, :9, 32 Lauretis, Teresa de, 24 Lavin, Irving, 87П57 Lawler, Louise, 256, 257 law of love, 142 Layard, John, 283П10 Leboyer, Frederick, 135, 145Ш4 Le Fanu, Sheridan, 310 Leibovitz, Annie, 114 leisure, 32; bodybuilding and, 81; orgasmic being and, 83; pleasure and, 31; scholars and, 204 lesbians: bodybuilder stereotypes and, 104, 110-12, 120; dyke drag, 191; fear of gazing by, 195; flirtation in classroom and, 234 Lever, Maurice, 293 lilies, 252-53, 312 Lil' Kim, 281 Limbaugh, Rush, 209 liminality, 231, 255 Lingis, Alphonso, 82; anatomies as erections, 82; eros as nomadic, 140; on exteriorization of muscle, 105; on lust for self, 80, 86П41; on midlife bodybuilders, 68, 77; on orgasmic body, 83; on primitivism, 116,125П71; and space, use of, 125П71 lipstick, 2, 3, 7, 21, 67,191, 209, 210, 232 literature: Sade as influence on, 290, 294; vampires in, 301, 306, 307, 308-9, 310, 311-12 Litvak, Joseph, 234, 243П58 looking. See gaze; visibility loose women, 70-71; female professors as, 193,195-98 Lorde, Audre, 17, 282-83Ш loss, narratives of, 14; advertising and, 15; Aphrodite and, 262; fitness disciplines and, 2; menopause discourse and, 117; popular culture and, 117, 118,119,125П74; stepmother myths and, 224; will to pleasure in opposition to, 69 love: gardens and, 236; as obscenity, 291—92 lust: for learning, 182, 193; malevolent stepmother myths and (see stepmothers); for self, 72,73, 80, 86П41; shame as obviating, 72. See also arousal; desire; seduction Lyon, Lisa, 100, 109 McLish, Rachel (bodybuilder), 107,109 Madonna, 67 magic, stepmothers and, 220, 221-22 Magnuson, Ann, 100,104 makeup, wearing of, 64, 85Ш4 male gaze, 24, 94-95, t93 236 Malevich, Kasimir, 130 Mansfield, Jayne, 270, 274,277-78 Mapplethorpe, Robert, 100 Marcuse, Herbert, 65-66, 71, 79, 80, 81 Marden, Brice, 101 331 I N D E X marriage: adultery, 228, 2421143; age of stepmothers and, 233; and cleanliness, 128; eroticism outside, 130-31; inter-corporeality and, 131—32 Marshment, Margaret, 24 Martin, Agnes, 101 marvel, as term, 253 masculinity: accusations of, and authority of women, 163; accusations of, female bodybuilders and, 77, 80,106,108,109, 119—20,160—61; crisis of, bodybuilding as signifying, 80; imitation of, female bodybuilders and, 69; muscle as signifying, 160 masturbation, 4, 128—29, H1, 247- $ee abo autoeroticism matron model: beauty ideal values and denial of pleasure to, 62, 89—90; bodybuilders as deviating from, 65, 89; body shape and, 60-63, 65, 77, 79; as commonplace, 72; disembodiment of, 78; as expectation, 62-63, % ; invisibility and, 64; management vs. looseness and, 70-7Г; matron defined, 74; as submissive, 60,64; time and, 65-66; True Womanhood and, 75, 77; youthfulness and, 64,65 Medici Aphrodite, 259, 265П17 men: attention from, r6; body of, as normative, 61; castration anxiety of, 19; mature bodies of, 62; and mothers, 135,136; as mythmakers, 231; older, and much younger women, 232-33; as promoters of bodybuilding, 107,123П25, 281, 284П18; repro-ductivity of females and, 61, 27Г; Sade 's critique 0^297; sexual harassment and, 149,154,169—70П1. See also father-teacher; parent-teacher model; professors menopause discourse, 91; erotic exile and, 99-100; and narratives of loss, 117; questioning, 65; resistance to, 91-92 midlife, defined, 91 mind: education and life of, 159,160, 167, 209-10; professor's body separate from, 150, 159,160, 162-64, гбз—67,179-80, i8i; sexed as male, 180. See also intelligence; soul-and-mind- inseparable-from-body Mishima, Yukio: on bodybuilding, 80, 93,119; on F104 flight, 130; loquacity of body, I2ini2; on narcissism, 61; Sun and Steel, 93 misogyny, 225; of ancient Greeks, 220, 225, 227; cunt as term and, 197; pinups and, 204; of Sade, 296; separation from the mother and, 133; stepmother myths and, 220, 227; of students, 225 models. See fashion models Molinaro, Ursule, 117, 237 Monroe, Marilyn, 249, 270, 271, 277-78 monster, as term, 26 monster/beauty: as appetite, 33; as being rather than possession, 13, 14; the cunt as, 199; defined, 2—3,5, 8, 9, 11-12; dessert as food of, 213; as destabilizing beauty ideology, 13, 20; dirtiness and, 254; dyeing hair blonde and, 280; vs. erotics of damage, 19—20; erotic weight of (see erotic weight); intimacy and, 12; makeup and, 85Ш4; the nude as, 198; perceived grotesqueness of, 19 —20; professorial, 180; proportions of, 4, 5; SCUM Manifesto and, 212; self-creation as (see aesthetic/ erotic self-creation); stepmother as, 216—17, 221; the visual and, 26; white clothing and, 254 monstrousness: erotics of damage and self-portrayals of, 19—20; as female condition, 18—19, 2I, Збпп25,2б; mother and, 133, 134-36; stepmothers and, 220—21, 241П20 Morgan, Kathryn Pauly, 162—63, 234 mothers: abject, 133,134-36,145П14; as erotic consort, 128-29,132,136-37, 203-4; feminism and, 132-33,144П6; incest and, 230; love of, 133; men and, 135, 136; as root of eros, 133-34, 145Ш3; separation from, 133, 135—36; touch and, 134, 139-40, 141; women and, 133, 135-36. See also fathers; stepmothers mother-teacher: as body, 226, 242П32; as complement to father-teacher, 226; as erotically powerless, 232; as feminist model, 167,169,172П22, 226; as good girl, 172П22,173П43; as supremely clean, 215. See also parent-teacher model; professors; stepmother-stepchild pedagogical model Ms. Olympia competition, 102, 103 Murnau, F. W., 301, 309 332 I N D E X Murray, Lenda (bodybuilder), 63 muscle: as attainable, 68; beauty of, 66; blondeness as feminizing, 107, 281; gender and, 81-82; as hermaphroditic, 77; love of, 92; masculinity as signified by, 160; of older woman, 77; the pump and, 81; purpose and, 81; as sensual, 93; as shield, 93; as source of clarity, 80. See also bodybuilding and related entries nakedness, 73—74 names, 217-18, 223-24, 236, 237-38 narcissism, 2; of bodybuilders, 78—80; as connection/contemplation, 78, 79—80, 161; defined, 161; gender imperative and isolating, III—12 Nead, Lynda, 61, 70, 101,197—98 Nichols, Mike, 117 night, vampires and, 306-8, 314 nineteenth-century models for women, 74, 77, 82-83 nipples: arousal of, 81; professors and, 164—65, 169,194, 227; visible but clothed, 164. See also breasts Nosferatu (Murnau), 301, 309 nude, female: Aphrodite of Knidos as model for, 61—62; bodybuilders as reality vs. abstraction, 60, 84-85П3; heroic nude vs., 109; male nude compared to, 256; midlife bodybuilders as, 106; monster/beauty as feminist, 74; obscenity and, 197-98; older female, 61—62; passivity of, 106; as reconstructing gaze, 195—96, 198; youth and perfection in, 61, 62 nude, male, 62, 105, 106, 256 nudity: as aesthetic/erotic technology, 254—55; of Aphrodite, 61-62, 254, 255, 259, 265П26; bodybuilding and, 73—74 objectification, 84 obscenity, 197—98; abject mother as, 135; art history professors and, 196—97; cultural function of, 135; the female nude and, 197—98; sentiment as, in erotics of damage, 291—92 Oedipal feelings: stepmothers and stepsons and, 230—32, 237; younger man and older woman and, 186, 237—38 Oedipus, 117-18, 223, 230-31, 237-38, 239 orgasm, 83, 128 Orlan, 20 Ouwerkerk, Sarah Van, 75, 76 Pacteau, Francette, 2, 17; on beauty game, 22; and bizarrerie, 72; critique of longing for beauty, 66; on integrity of body, 83; on perfection, 264П7; the personal and, 18, 19; and self-display, 73; on the visual, 26 Pagano, Jo Anne, 163-64, 189, 242П32 Page, Betty, 8 pain: aesthetic/erotic lack and, 181; of beauty's pursuit, 26; humiliation of imperfection, 61. See also suffering parent-teacher model: as amorous model, 226; antithesis essential to, 231; as disembodied, 225, 226, 242П32; as infantilizing students, 225-26. See also father-teacher; mother-teacher; professors; stepmother-stepchild pedagogical model passionate wife, 128, 129, 248-49; Aphrodite as, 248-49, 258, 270, 273; Sappho as, 260, 266П29 pedagogical erotics (consensual erotics), 175, 176, 178; ancient Greek, 151-52; childhood crushes and, 205—6; effects of, 149, 175, 181-82, 184, 185, 186, 195—96; Frueh and, 176-79, 180—81, 182,185-87,191—93; Gallop on, 154-55; as labor, 205; lack of, 211-13; male teachers and, 152-53; model for (see stepmother-stepchild pedagogical model); motivations for, 157; as partnership, 205; personal comfort and power asbasisof, 191; personal relationships and, 155, 178—79; pleasures encouraged through, 211; as relation in classroom, 176, 180, 186-87; sexual relations compared to, 175, 176, 182, 184, 185; spectacle and, 164; student gaze and, 193-95; as taboo subject, 149-50; thanatics vs., 181. See abo consensual sexual relations pedagogical theory: bad body and, 195—96; female professors and, 196; feminist, 154, 155, 159,169, 196, 207-8, 215-16, 234, 242П33; gardening model, 234-37, 239-40; nineteenth-century, 167; professors' bodies as unexplored in, 154—56, 159; somatic learning, 190 333 I N D E X pedagogy: independent thought developed through, 181, 226; as labor, 205, 214m; pleasure as missing from, 168, 210-13 penis: metaphors of, and bodybuilding, 82; and orgasm as integrity vs. dismemberment, 83; Sade's comment on, 296; weapon imagery and, 130,131 perfection, 250; and alternative role models, plethora of, 191; aphrodisiac beauty distinguished from, 70; assessment of, 12; bodybuilders in pursuit of, 70; class and, 251; as decorporeal-izing, 22-23; fashion and, 254-55; feminism and, 250, 254, 255, 264П7; as ideology, 251; as nonexistent, 7; nude as answer to imperfection, 61; paradox of,3, 5; as personal failure, 12, 27, 261-62; pinups and, 99; as religion, 256-57; as stasis, 1, 2, 6—7, 10. See also beauty ideal performance, hypermuscular. See hyper-muscular performance performance art theory, 96-97,100,101, 121-22П14 performance principle, 81 perfume: advertising for, 250-51, 253, 264Ш1; Aphrodite and, 253, 255; divinities and humans joined by, 258, 265П24; effects of, 153-54. See also cosmetics the personal: in feminist writing on beauty, 6,18; mothers' bodies, writing on, 133,144П6; in pedagogy (see pedagogical erotics); as political, meaning °f '77; professors' bodies, academic writing and, 154,155—56, i7inio, 190; in scholarship, 16-17, 39 Peterson, Jessica, 31-32 Phaedra (of myth and retellings), 218-19, 22°, 226; age of, 233; and Aphrodite, 218, 228; death and, 219, 229, 241m 2; hotness, 237; incest and, 230-31; infantilization and, 225, 242П31; misogyny and, 220, 225, 227; monstrousness and, 221; reimagining of, 229-30, 231-32; as replacement, 227-28; shame and, 228-29, 238—39; as wisewoman/priestess, 219, 240- 41ПИ Phaedra (Rexroth), 218, 219, 228-29, 237, 238—39, 240Ш1 Phaedra's Love (Kane), 241Ш2 Phaedrus (Plato), 151 Phèdre (Racine), 218, 221, 227, 230, 238 Phelan, Peggy, 25-26, 28 photogenic, erotogenic as antidote to, 40,67 pinups: bait-and-switch technique and, 104; childhood experiences of, 204; disembodiment of, 78; dual pleasure of, 90; of the everyday, 40; feminist reclamation of, 90, 104; midlife, 77—78; midlife bodybuilders as, 89, 90, 92, 99—100, 104—5, IO^I n9 Per" fection in conventional, 99. See also film; porn icons Plato, 151—52 Playboy; 77—78, 95; Einsohn, Ginny, 78; Jacobs, Victoria, 78; Marquis, Patricia, 78; More, Jo, 78; Walter, Jerilyn, 78 pleasure: amusement vs., 179,186, 212; arrogance of, 10, 30—31, 292; assent to, necessity for, 185,186; as basis for change, 26-27; as basis of learning, 154-55,177, 182; beauty ideal and loss of, 5; body of love as state of, 248; concentration and, 64—65; concord and, 248, 257; denial of professorial body and lack of, 154; desire to please as deriving, 22; erotics of damage vs. unadulterated, 30-31, 291, 292, 297; fear of, 213; learning environments excluding, 154, 168, 210—13; lexicons of, 17, 35Ш8; midlife women as denied (see matron model); pinups and, 90; as point of living, 208; and power, as partnership, 207—8, 209-10; prob-lematization of female, 24, 28; pursuit of, as required, 26-27, 29 25^ 265023, 292; reality as denying (see reality principle); repetition of, 29—30; of retention vs. expulsion, 296—97; as sweetness of life, 213; will to (see will to pleasure). See also desire; eroticism; lust Polykleitos, 105, 263П3 pomegranates, 236 porn icons, 68, 69, 95. See abo pinups power: aesthetic of, 101; beauty as avenue of, 5; equality of feminist pedagogy and, 234, 243П60; father- and mother-teachers and, 231, 232—33; fear of one 's own, 207; laughter and, 334 I N D E X 208; mastery of body and, 73; men and, 207; midlife women and, 65; and pleasure, in partnership, 207-8, 209—10; professorial, 155-57,180—81, 182—83, 207—8; revisualizing beauty and, 24-26; somatic learning and, 190. See also authority Power Dreamers (Molinaro), 117—18, 237 Powers of Horror (Kristeva), 28П28,133, 135, 136, Ч4П7 Praxiteles' Knidia. See Aphrodite of Knidos pregnancy and childbirth: abjection and, 133, 135, 145Ш4; bulk and, 116—17; orgasm and, 128 pride, 21 primitivism, 115-16,125П69 professors: of art history, obscenity and, 196—97, 198—99; body of {see professor's body); energy and, 199; as father-teacher {see father-teacher); flirtation by, 234; gaze of, 193, 194, 195; as male, assumed norm of, 151-53,160,163,169; as mother-teacher {see mother-teacher); performance anxiety of, 154, 170-71 n8; power of, 155-57, 180-81, 182-83, 207—8; reading of students by, 190; and sexual harassment {see sexual harassment). See also parent-teacher model; pedagogy and related entriesy stepmother-stepchild pedagogical model professor's body, 150; appearance of, and learning, 181,189—93, 195-96,198; as bad body, 168,169, 194,195-99, 209—10, 214П5, 216, 227; as basis of pedagogical erotics, 179; bodybuilding and, 160—61; body/mind impact of, 175—76; breasts of, 164—65, 169, 173П43, 194, 226, 227; costume of, 159-60, 161, 163,164, 165,176,181, 192; decency required of, 167—69; as denied, 154-56, 159, 161,164; gaze of students and, 193—95,198; as information, 179, 181, 190; male, as norm, 155-56, 160; of male professors, 160; mind separated from, 150,159,160, 162—64,165-67, 179—80,181; nipples of, 164-65, 169, 194, 227; of parent-teacher model, 225, 226, 242П32; as permission-giving alternative role model, 190—93, 199-200; power restructuring and, 181; reading of, by students, 189—93; sexiness and, 152, 160,161-62, 164—65; touch and, 156—58, 182; as undermining female authority, 162-64,166; variations in, 176,179-80,187П5 prosaic reality: aesthetics of, 39, 40-41; denial of pleasure as poisoning, 186; magic and, 222; pleasure as goal in, 27, 292; unshaming of, 291; will to pleasure depleted by, 292 Pumping Iron II: The Women (Butler), 107 race: appreciation of beauty differences and, II, 249—50, 260-61; beauty ideal and, 251-52, 264Ш1, 270, 280, 281; black female bodybuilders, representation of, 112,114-16; Blonde Bunny Goddess cult and, 275, 277, 280-81, 28зшп4,15, 283-84П16; dyeing hair blonde and, 280-81, 28зппц,15, 283—84П16; fashion magazines and, 114—15, 264Ш1; professorial embodiment and, 155,176,179; sexualization based on, 115-16, 260-61, 266П31, 28i, 283nni4,i5, 307 Racine, Jean Baptiste, 218, 221, 227, 230, 238 radiance: achieving, 267; of Aphrodite, 267, 268, 273, 282; as possession of youth, 15 Ramsey, JonBenét, 270, 273, 277-78, 283П6 reality principle: abject mother and, Ï34—35; aphrodisiac being as new, 80; education and, 210-11; erotics of damage and, 292; pleasure denied by, 136 red, 85Ш4, 205, 209, 210; as fetish fashion color, 105,123П36 red lips, 2, 3, 7, 21, 67, 191, 209, 210, 232 Reed, Chris, 179 Reeder, Jennifer, 290-91, 296, 297П5 relationships: aesthetic/erotic self-creation and, 16; arts of love and, 256-57; partnership model of, 134; self-love and, 2 representation: conventionalized erotic, bodybuilders and, 89-90, 99-102, 104, 107-8,122П23, 12зпп25,27; 335 I N D E X representation (continued) as multivalent and malleable, 89—90, too; self-representation, 27-28 reproductivity: blondeness as signifying, 270, 271-72, 273; joke of female, 274; pleasure representations vs., 103, 123П37; as symbol and embodiment of fuckability, 61, 271 Rexroth, Kenneth, 218, 219, 228-29, 237, 238-39, 240Ш1 Robinson, Mrs. (Nichols character), 117, 118,125П74 rock climbing, 41, 303, 314-15, 318 Rome, ancient: and Aphrodite (Venus), 39,41, 255, 263П4; incest in, 230, 242П50; Lucretia, 118; Lupercalia, 259—60; women of, 41 Rooks, Noliwe M., 36111119,25 roses, 236, 252 Rosier, Martha, 5 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 129-30,144П3 Rubens, Peter Paul, 79, 87П57, 236 Rymer, James Malcolm, 308-9 Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von, 152, 210 sacrifice, 27, 277-78, 283Ш0 Sade, Marquis de: blondes vs. brunettes in, 270; contradictions of, 296; Frueh and, 293-94, 296, 297, 298Ш7; influence of, 289-90, 292, 296-, Juliette, 270, 290;Justine, 290; love letters of, 296; midlife women and, 293, 294; The 120 Days of Sodom, 289, 291, 293, 294~95; and repetitive pleasures, 29; and shame, erotics of, 289-90, 296 Sappho, 260, 263—64П4, 266П29 Scapp, Ron, 155, 156 Scherr, Raquel L., 3,4,5,17,32; the personal and,18,19 Schneemann, Carolee, 30-31, toi Schneider, Rebecca, 100,125П69 scholarship: the personal in, 16-17, l8, '9 poetry in, 17. See also feminism; intellectual work; pedagogical theory Schreiber, Andi Faryl, 98 Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 8 0 , H I SCUM Manifesto (Solanas), 212 seduction: alienation as lessened by, 159; moves of, 158; slowness of consensual, 158; as term, 180 Segal, Lynne, 68, 121П3 Seid, Roberta, 21, 23, 256-67, 258, 265П20 self: apologizing for, 207, 209—10; lust for, 72, 73, 80, 86041 self-love, self-creation based on, 2, 34m Semmel, Joan, 60 sentimentality, 39; chocolate and, 295; as obscenity, erotics of damage and, 291-92 separation: of professor's mind from body, 150,159,160,162-64,165-67, 179—80,181; of student from teacher, 156—58, 171П18; of student's mind and body, 166 sexiness: commitment to, 262; men and intelligence and, 152,170П6; professor's body and, 152, 160, 161-62, 164—65; sexy, as term, 162, 262; women and intelligence and, 152,153, 162-63. ak° aesthetic/erotic self-creation; eroticism; pleasure sexual harassment, 149—50, 169—70m; Gallop and, 149-50, 167, 170П2, 183-84, 186, 188П15; harass, as term, 167; hostile environment and, 166-67; men and, 149,154,169-70Ш; mind separated from body and, 165-67; policies on, 182-84, 186, 194; student gaze and, 194. See abo pedagogical erotics sexuality: pedagogy and (see consensual sexual relations; pedagogical erotics); pleasure as lacking in discussion of, 213; vampires and, 308—10, 315, 316—17. See also eroticism sexually active midlife woman, 67-68, 90,91-92 sexy, as term, 162, 262 shame: Aphrodite and, 255, 259, 265П17; bodybuilders and, 72,108; celibacy and, 68; in classroom, 180, 195; denial of beauty and, 10; erotics of, 289—90, 296; female professors and, 164; gaze and, 194-95; midlife sexy and erotic body and, 67-68, 71; power/pleasure obstructed by, 208; Sade and, 289-90, 296; spectacle and, 26; stepmothers and, 228, 238—39, 242П43; unashamed vs. shamelessness and, 30, 31, 291; younger man and older woman and, 238—39. See also abjection; damage, erotics of shamelessness, 30, 31, 291 Sherman, Cindy, 20, 100, 271 shit, 293, 295, 296, 297 336 I N D E X Siddall, Elizabeth, 131 sin, 129 size: of Aphrodite, 251, 254, 273, 283П5; bulk {see bulk); erotic weight {see erotic weight); Majestic Womanhood and, 74; matronliness and, 62-63; midlife bodybuilders and, 74, 77, 112; shapeliness and, 108—9; thinness as beauty ideal {see anorexia; dieting) skin: of bodybuilders, 112; color differences, embracing of, 11, 249-50, 260—61 {see also race); complexion, 3, 7; erotic atrophy of, 250; flawless, 7, 35nto; large vs. enlarged pores of, 6-7; seeing beyond, 141—42 smells: beauty ideal and, 251-52; fish, 251, 252, 258, 265П24, 272; of the goddess, 258, 265П24; of professor's body, '53-54, '55,176 Snow White (film), 219, 221 Snow White fairy tale, 218, 219—20, 221-22, 223, 224, 237, 239 social transformation: and nonnormative beauty, 22; pedagogical erotics and, 175; through pleasure (concord), 248, 257—58, 268, 282—83m Socrates, 151—52 Solanas, Valerie, 212 sons: Aphrodite and, 141—42 soul-and-mind-inseparable-from-body: bodybuilders and, 101—2; female professors and, 165,166—67, '96,199-200; fullness of, 297; humanization of education and, 184; pleasure of retention and, 297; politicians as separated from, 180; risk-taking, responses elicited by, 59; self-creation and, 2; vampiric fitness and, 303. See also body; mind spectacle: commodification and, 25-26, 31; display, 72—74, 96; female body as, 164; of midlife eros, 73; professors and, 164, 165, 167, 193,196; women and, 24—26. See also gaze; visibility Spence, Jo, 20 Sphinx, 19, 118 spiderwoman, Dennis as, 102, 104, 118 Sprinkle, Annie, 100, 104 Stannard, Una, 18 Steele, Valerie, 105, 12зппз6,з7 Steinmetz, Julia, 31—32 stepmothers: and loss, narratives of, 118; malevolent archetype of, 216—21, 223, 224, 227-29, 238-39; as monster/ beauty, 216—17, 22' Oedipal feelings and, 230-32, 237; reimagining of, 221-23, 229-3° 23i—З2, 239-40; and shame, 228, 238-39, 242П43; step as prefix, meaning of, 227. See also mothers stepmother-stepchild pedagogical model, 150, Г53, 215,217-18; Aphrodite's limi-nality and, 231; erotic power and, 232—33; flirtation and, 234; gardening model and, 234—37, 239—40; media example of, 206; opening as facilitated through, 226—27, 228-29, 242П33; as outrageous, 215-16. See also pedagogical erotics and related entries stepson (student), 150—51, 153, 157—58, 186, 205, 210, 217, 225, 229, 231, 239 Stoker, Bram, 301, 306, 307, 309, 310, 311—12 students: and aesthetic/erotic lack, 181; crushes of, 205—6; fear of critical thought in, 181; gaze of, 193—95,198; infantilization of, 167; mind separated from body of, 166; misogyny of, 225; protectionism of, 184,186; reading of professor's body by, 189-93; response to sexual harassment, 166; warmth of academic environment and, 181-82. See also pedagogical erotics; professors style: Aphroditean, vs. personal, 269; vs. fashion, 254; perfection and, 254-55 subjectivity: corporeal, 5, 15-16, 24П14; of scholarship, 16 suffering: cultural belief in, pleasure vs., 292; as midlife woman's expectation, 224; as point of life, pleasure vs., 208; as socially approved, 30. See abo pain swagger, 81-82 sweetness: Blonde Bunny Goddess cult and, 275-76; of pleasure, as necessary, 2'3 Symposium (Plato), 151 taboos, 4; beauty discussions as, 3, 4-6, 10, 12, 18; pedagogical erotics, discussions of, 149-50 Talbot, Margaret, 167-68, 192 thanatics, 181, 184 Thomas, Al: and body of content, 37П40; and Celebration, 97; and hyper-muscular performers as symbol, 99; 337 I N D E X Thomas, Al (continued) on intensive training, 92; on muscle, 66; on obj edification, 84 time: aesthetic living and, 81; matronli-ness and, 65-66 Titian, 236, 249 Todd, Jan, 74, 87П48 toned body. See fitness Toth, Emily, 161 touch: as lesson, 282; mother-infant, as essential to adult well-being, 134; as return to mother, 141; student-teacher, 156,158, 181-82,186; sublimation of, into looking, 26; unmet longings for, 139-40 training: Aphrodite and, 141; counting reps, 70, 79, 83; friendships and, 141; intensive, 92; mindlessness of, 65, 88П59; work of, as play, 79, 87П58. See also bodybuilding transgressiveness: aesthetics and, 119; art world and, 168,173П41; bad girls and, 168-69, 173П41; vs. being taken seriously, 169; lowlife aesthetic and, 290—91; sentiment as, 292; as vogue, 289, 290-91,297П5 True Womanhood, 75, 77 Turner, Tina, 280, 281, 28зпш4,15 vagina: gender construction and, 82; and orgasm as integrity vs. dismemberment, 83; sloppiness of, 164. See also cunt; vulva vaginal iconography, 197 Valentine's Day, 259-60 vampires, 20, 24-25, 299-319; and blood, 24-25,304-6; and fitness, 302-3, 304, 313-15; as model of aesthetic/erotic self-creation, 11; and nature, 310-13; and the night, 306—8, 314; and sexuality, 308—10, 315, 316—17. See also aesthetic/ erotic self-creation; monster/ beauty Vargas Llosa, Mario, 117,118 Venus. See Aphrodite Venus Anadyomene, 99 Venus figures, 61,79,87П57 Venus in Furs (Sacher-Masoch), 152, 2TO Venus Italica (Canova), 259 Venus Pareve (Wilke), 295 Venus Verticordia, 9 violence: beauty practices as, 32; expulsions of body as, 296; physical transformation as, 20; separation of mind from body as, 166. See also damage, erotics of; pain visibility: aging and invisibility, 15,16, 64, 71, 91; midlife bodybuilders and, 65; professors as invisible, 161; as trap, 25—26; women's movement and, 25. See also gaze; spectacle Vogue: age and perfection and, 254-55; class and, 32; and flawless skin, 7, 35П10; and meritocracy of beauty, 7, 35ml; perfume ads in, 250-51,264Ш1; race and, 114-15, 264Ш1; as reinforcing beauty ideal, 4 voice coaching, 208—9 voluptuousness, 71—72 vulva, flower imagery and, 130. See also cunt; vagina Walker, Barbara, 264П6 Warner, Marina, 216, 221 Watson, Patricia A., 216, 220, 221, 227, 23°, 233, 242n5° Weber, Marnie, 277-78, 2751 Weider, Ben, 281П18 Weider, Joe, 123П25, 281П18 weight. See bulk; dieting; erotic weight; size weight training, 63 Weiner, Linda, 169Ш, 232 well-being: erotic, 71—72; pleasure as strategy for, 34; touch and, 134 Wennerstrom, Steve, 93,107 whites and whiteness: Blonde Bunny Goddess cult and, 275, 277, 280-81, 28зпп14,15, 283-84П16; cleanliness and beauty ideal and, 251, 252, 270, 280,307; monster/beauty and, 254; perfume ads and, 250—51. See abo colors; race whore/mother division, 169 wife, passionate. See passionate wife wigs, 267, 280 wildness, 285-86 Wilke, Hannah, 20, 295 Williams, Carla, 307—8 will to pleasure, 69; beauty built from, nature of, 258; midlife bodybuilders and, 69; as necessity, 256, 265П23; prosaic reality depleting, 292 338 I N D E X wise woman, 219, 240—41ml Wittig, Monique, 216, 226, 229 Wolf, Naomi, 3,17; on beauty backlash, 25; on perfection, 264П7; the personal and, 18,19; on pleasure, 26; on revi-sualizing beauty, 23; on violence, 32 The Women (Dobbins), 104—5, I07 I0^ in, 280, 281 women's movement. See feminism Women's Physique World, 109 women's studies: mother-teacher model and, 172П22, 226; pleasure as lacking in, 211, 212. See also feminism wonder, 108 Wood-Hoyte, Linda (bodybuilder), 77, 84, 92, 109—10, 117; in Celebration, 112—14, 11s, 116, 125П69; and feminist performance, 96; Vogue feature and,114—16 wrestling, 106, 124П41 Young, Iris Marion, 78, 80, 86П30, 116—17 Yourcenar, Marguerite, 220, 227, 228 youth: aesthetic vitality as assumed province of, 63—64; as beauty ideal, 64, 74, 232-34, 254-55; imitation of, 64; intimacy as assumed potential of, 62; mother rejected by, 133, 141; older aphrodisiac body and, 67; overestima-tion of powers by, 137 youthfulness, matron model and, 64, 65 Zeitlin, Froma I., 242П43 339 |
