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Unapologetic Beauty by Frances Frueh, Joanna Frueh, Frances Murray is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Unapologetic Beauty about?

**A startlingly powerful collaboration reimagines female beauty**What is beauty without pain? Compromise is what our culture offers women: cinching, pinching, cutting, shaving, scraping, starving, and, of course, lifting and separating, all in service of one sharply circumscribed model purported to be pleasing—but not to most, if any, women. This extraordinary book reimagines beauty at its most provocative and fetishized locus: the female breast. Artist, writer, and scholar Joanna Frueh scrutinizes ideals of beauty and sensuality, often motivated by her experiences with breast cancer. Frances Murray, her friend and collaborator for more than thirty years, documents Frueh’s journey of unapologetic beauty in a series of intimate, dazzlingly original photographs before and after her bilateral mastectomy and chemotherapy. Reflecting with insight, directness, and humor—and with contributions from a breast surgeon, an oncologist, and artists and scholars who have had breast cancer—Frueh arrives at a new, liberating view of beauty and of the sensual pleasure found in transformative self-acceptance. Central to this reckoning is her documentation and critique of the notion of hyperbeauty (

Who reads Unapologetic Beauty?

Author

Frances Frueh, Joanna Frueh, Frances Murray

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781517906559

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Photography, Health & Fitness