A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN / ESSAYS ON ART, SEX, AND THE MIND

In this trilogy of works collected in a single volume, Hustvedt brings a feminist, interdisciplinary perspective to a range of subje cts. Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Susan Sontag and Knut Ove Knausgaard are among those who come under her scrutiny. In the book' s central essay, she explores the intractable mind-body problem and in the third section, reflects on the mysteries of hysteria, syn esthesia, memory, perception, and the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard. With clarity, wit, and passion, she exposes gender bias, upen ds recei...[Read more]