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A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.

Siri Husvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works. She is a lover of art, the humanities, and the sciences. She is a novelist and a feminist. Her lively, lucid essays in A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women begin to make some sense of those plural perspectives.

Divided into three parts, the first section, “A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women,” investigates the perceptual and gender biases that affect how we judge art, literature, and the world in general. Among the legendary figures considered are Picasso, De Kooning, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeoisie, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, the Guerrilla Girls, and Karl Ove Knausgaard.

The second part, “The Delusions of Certainty,” is about the age-old mind/body problem that has haunted Western philosophy since the Greeks. Hustvedt explains the relationship between the mental and the physical realms, showing what lies beyond the argument?desire, belief, and the imagination.

The final section, “What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition,” discusses neurological disorders and the mysteries of hysteria. Drawing on research in sociology, neurobiology, history, genetics, statistics, psychology, and psychiatry, this section also contains a profound and powerful consideration of suicide.

There has been much talk about building a beautiful bridge across the chasm that separates the sciences and the humanities. At the moment, we have only a wobbly walkway, but Hustvedt is encouraged by the travelers making their way across it in both directions. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women is an insightful account of the journeys back and forth.

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Introduction
A woman looking at men looking at women. A woman looking at men looking at women
Balloon magic
My Louise Bourgeois
Anselm Kiefer: the truth is always gray
Mapplethorpe / Almodóvar: points and counterpoints
Wim Wenders''s Pina: dancing for dance
Much ado about hairdos
Sontag on smut: fifty years later
"No competition"
The writing self and the psychiatric patient
Inside the room
The delusions of certainty
What are we? : Lectures on the human condition. Borderlands: first, second, and third person adventures in crossing disciplines
Becoming others
Why one story and not another?
I wept for four years and when I stopped I was blind
Suicide and the drama of self-consciousness
Subjunctive flights: thinking through the embodied reality of imaginary worlds
Remembering in art: the horizontal and the vertical
Philosophy matters in brain matters
Kierkegaard''s pseudonyms and the truths of fiction.