Elisabeth Bronfen
Over Her Dead: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic.
New York: Routledge, 1992. First edition. 041590661X xvii/460 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Top outside corner of half title page has been excised. Interior is clean and bright. In-text and full-page illustrations.
"The conjuction of death, art, and femininity is a rich and unexplored stratum of Western culture. Why do dead women fascinate even as they repel? Why is the death of a beautiful woman figure so centrallly located in art and literature? And what does this tell us about the role of women in contemprary Westen society? "In Over Her Dead Body," Elisabeth Bronfen attempts to remap the history of Western thought about women's bodies. material from a common repertoire of cultural images, can be read as symptoms of our culture."