Being gorgeous: feminism, sexuality and the pleasures of the visual - 27

'Being Gorgeous' explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity.

This is protest through play - a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty first century.

Willson discusses how, whether through pastiche, parody, or pure pleasure, artists, artistes and indeed the spectators themselves can operate in excess of the restrictive images which saturate our visual culture.