{"id":3154,"date":"2019-12-07T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2019-12-13T12:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T12:35:42","slug":"hans-maes-on-sexual-authenticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/12\/07\/hans-maes-on-sexual-authenticity\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans Maes on sexual authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/maes.html\">Dr Hans Maes<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/index.html\">School of Arts<\/a>, has recently published a book entitled <em>Wat is sexy? Een oefening in feministische filosofie <\/em>[<em>What is Sexy? An Exercise in Feminist Philosophy<\/em>] (Letterwerk, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>What makes a person sexy? And who actually determines that? Do the same standards apply to men and women? How should we, as a society, deal with the increasing pressure to look &#8216;hot&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>In this book philosopher Hans Maes seeks an answer to these questions.\u00a0Along the way he also reflects on sex symbols; the role of art, power, and wealth; and\u00a0the notion of &#8216;sexual authenticity&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please see the publisher\u2019s page (in Dutch) here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.letterwerk.be\/publ\/watissexy.html\">www.letterwerk.be\/publ\/watissexy.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2019\/12\/9200000114685599.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3155 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2019\/12\/9200000114685599-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wat is sexy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2019\/12\/9200000114685599-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2019\/12\/9200000114685599-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2019\/12\/9200000114685599.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Hans Maes, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the School of Arts, has recently published a book entitled Wat is sexy? Een &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/12\/07\/hans-maes-on-sexual-authenticity\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25563,1335,50209,124,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}