About the Book: A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and
the Mind
Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, Siri Hustvedt is also highly regarded
as a writer of non-fiction whose insights are drawn from her broad knowledge in
the arts, humanities, and sciences. In this trilogy of works collected in a
single volume, Hustvedt brings a feminist, interdisciplinary perspective to a
range of subjects. Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Susan Sontag and Knut Ove
Knausgaard are among those who come under her scrutiny. In the books central
essay, she explores the intractable mind-body problem and in the third section,
reflects on the mysteries of