The Trouble with 'Female Sexuality'

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Trouble with 'Female Sexuality'

AU - Salih, Maha Sarah Abdulelah Lloyd

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Karma Lochrie’s book, like most studies of medieval sexuality, is primarily concerned with textual sources. Can the visual arts contribute to this work of categorisation? This brief overview will suggest that such a focus tends if anything to find more uncertainties of various kinds; to indicate that “Female sexuality [in the visual arts] … wasn’t.” The encounters of women, the visual arts and eros, that is, are so heterogenous and their boundaries so unclear as to make the category elusive.

AB - Karma Lochrie’s book, like most studies of medieval sexuality, is primarily concerned with textual sources. Can the visual arts contribute to this work of categorisation? This brief overview will suggest that such a focus tends if anything to find more uncertainties of various kinds; to indicate that “Female sexuality [in the visual arts] … wasn’t.” The encounters of women, the visual arts and eros, that is, are so heterogenous and their boundaries so unclear as to make the category elusive.

KW - sexuality

KW - reception of art

M3 - Article

VL - 5

JO - Different Visions

JF - Different Visions

ER -