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Female Sexuality Reconsidered Female Sexuality Reconsidered
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Uncovering the Sexual Body Through Translucent Uniforms Uncovering the Sexual Body Through Translucent Uniforms
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Female Pleasure and the Reversion of the Gaze Female Pleasure and the Reversion of the Gaze
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Sociospatial Transformation of Prostitute Discourse Sociospatial Transformation of Prostitute Discourse
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3 The Sexual Subject: Sexing the Body, Reversing the Gaze
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Published:October 2015
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Abstract
This chapter discusses the transformation of female sexuality from the sexed-other into the pleasurable-self. Hu Ming's army series reveals the female body and sexuality concealed beneath military uniforms, thereby shedding the cover of socialist gender hierarchies and art canons. Shen Ling's Pink Bed and Man-Woman series share sexual pleasure with viewers and challenge notions of eroticism and pornography. In contrast to Hu Ming's and Shen Ling's positive portraiture of female bodies and sexuality, Xiang Jing's sculptures radically challenge conventional spectatorship with oversized naked bodies, simultaneously inviting and deflecting a voyeuristic-scopophilic gaze. The exposed genitals, distorted body shapes, and hairless heads work to refuse pleasure in looking and frustrate interpretive reading, yet the sculpture subjects remain in the realm of self-expression of female experience. Finally, the thesis of female sexuality is further explored through the dialectical relationship between gender and space. Cui Xiuwen's hidden camera shows sex workers inside the ladies' room of an affluent nightclub in Beijing. The video exposure reveals how prostitution, ostensibly eliminated, is reemerging in public space. The chapter concludes that in a state-managed market society where female sexuality faces either sanctions or commodification, it is difficult to speak about women's pleasure.
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