Peg Brand Weiser is Adjunct Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and Emerita Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. She is editor of  Beauty Unlimited and of (with Carolyn Korsmeyer) Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics, and author of numerous essays in feminist aesthetics dealing with women's art, creativity, beauty standards and sports. She served as the first Chair of the Feminist Caucus Committee of the American Society for Aesthetics and is the former First Lady of Indiana University (1994-2002).

Foreword: Cutting Two Ways with Beauty Eleanor HeartneyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: How Beauty Matters Peg Zeglin BrandPart 1. Beyond Kant1. Kantian and Contextual Beauty Marcia M. Eaton2. Ethnicity, Race, and Monstrosity: The Rhetorics of Horror and Humor Nokl Carroll3. Malcolm's Conk and Danto's Colors, or: Four Logical Petitions Concerning Race, Beauty, and Aesthetics Paul C. Taylor4. Beauty and Beautification Arthur C. DantoPart 2. Body Beautiful5. Beauty and Its Kitsch Competitors Kathleen M. Higgins6. Beauty (Re)Discovers the Male Body Susan Bordo7. Miss America: Whose Ideal? Dawn Perlmutter8. Female Bodily Aesthetics, Politics, and Feminine Ideals of Beauty in China Eva Kit Wah Man9. From the Crooked Timber of Humanity, Beautiful Things Can Be Made Anita SilversPart 3. Body as Art10. Whose Beauty? Women, Art, and Inter-subjectivity in Luce Irigaray's Writings Hilary Robinson11. A Man Pretending to Be a Woman: On Yasumasa Morimura's Actresses Kaori Chino12. "A New Kind of Beauty": Karole Armitage's Early Ballets Sally Banes13. Bound to Beauty: An Interview with Orlan Peg Zeglin BrandContributorsIndex

Peg Zeglin Brand is an artist and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women¿s Studies at Indiana University ¿ Purdue University Indianapolis. Her new collection of essays, Beauty Revisited, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press.