{"product_id":"9780814746868-eyes-of-love","title":"Eyes of Love","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Gaze in English and French Culture, 1840-1900\u003cbr\u003eKern (history, Northern Illinois U.) documents a recurring pattern in Pre-Raphaelite and Impressionist painting that arranges the sexes so that a profiled man gazes at a women while she looks away from him at the viewer and ponders on an apparent offer. He challenges feminist claims that gazing men\u003cbr\u003eStephen Kern has discovered in Pre-Raphaelite and impressionist art a recurring pattern for arranging the sexes: a profiled man gazing at a woman who looks away from him and toward the viewer, while she ponders an apparent offer. Kern draws on such images to challenge the claim of some feminist critics and historians that gazing men monopolize subjectivity and turn women into sex objects. So intent are these writers on viewing women as victims, who in fact reveal a commanding subjectivity. Compared with the eyes of men, women's eyes are more visible, consider more varied thoughts, and convey more profound, if not more intense, emotions. An authoritative and highly original survey of European art and literature, Eyes of Love also challenges another widely held belief - that a double standard has clearly governed how society judged the sexes. Kern supports these startling interpretations of Renoir, Manet, Degas, Rossetti, Gauguin, Millais, Hunt, Burne-Jones, and Tissot with every evidence from novels by Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Dickens, C. Bronte, Gaskell, Eliot, Hardy, and H. James.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55210603610486,"sku":"9780814746868","price":130.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_10981926_19687001_20241209052544_aafda992-d45f-4a60-930c-0652864f965b.jpg?v=1738265406","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780814746868-eyes-of-love","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}