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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
S. & S. Dec. 2016. 576p. notes. ISBN 9781501141096. $35; ebk. ISBN 9781501141119 FINE ARTS
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Hustvedt's (The Blazing World; The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves) essays, written between 2011 and 2015, make for a weighty, thought-provoking collection. Divided into three sections, the anthology weaves science and the humanities together with a critical eye and a personal touch. The author's central claims throughout, whether writing about art or the mind/body problem, are "all human knowledge is partial" and everyone is influenced by her or his "community of thinkers or researchers." As a result, much of what is delivered by the media as truth or fact is open to question. And question Hustvedt does, leading readers from one idea to the next as she examines something as simple as a hairdo or as complex as memory and imagination. She even attempts to find an answer to the perennial query about where authors get their ideas.
VERDICT An excellent and fearlessly wide-ranging collection that never stops at the easy answer but continually probes deeper. Not for casual, comfort, or fluff reading, this title demands attention and thought, but the effort is rewarded. [See Prepub Alert, 6/19/16.]
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