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Using the writings of ancient and contemporary male philosophers the book interrogates ideas around narrow gender roles, and the creation of feminist aesthetic.
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Book, Chritine Battersby, Gender and Genius. Towards a Feminist Aesthetics, 1989
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Gender and Genius. Towards a Feminist Aesthetics
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