| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.2

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Constance Classen. The Color of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination. New York: Routledge. 1998. Pp. 234. $21.00.

The striking title of Constance Classen's slim but wide-ranging volume is curiously inappropriate for the prescriptive element of her work. Sight and hearing, as she repeatedly points out, have always been the privileged senses, whereas touch, taste, and smell have been considered baser. Consistent with the dominant values of Western culture, sight and hearing are masculine; the others are feminine in their associations and attributes. Color, however, is mediated by sight, and since one of Classen's stated aims is to encourage enhanced appreciation of these "baser" senses, the smell of angels would have been the catchier title. . . .

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