The Visual Culture of Women's Activism in London, Paris and Beyond

The Visual Culture of Women's Activism in London, Paris and Beyond
Author: Colleen Denney
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2018-07-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1476633258

Women's bodies and their portrayals in the media remain at the center of every debate on women's rights worldwide. This study examines the domains of public and private space--and the interstices between them--with a focus on how women advance in the public arena, drawing on the domestic politics of the private realm in their drive for social justice and equality. The author examines the visual culture of first-wave feminists in Edwardian England and feminist developments in France. Late 20th century and 21st century women's movements are discussed in the context of how they continue to honor first-wave suffrage history.

The Visual Culture of Women's Activism in London, Paris and Beyond

The Visual Culture of Women's Activism in London, Paris and Beyond
Author: Colleen Denney
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2018-07-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1476671370

Women's bodies and their portrayals in the media remain at the center of every debate on women's rights worldwide. This study examines the domains of public and private space--and the interstices between them--with a focus on how women advance in the public arena, drawing on the domestic politics of the private realm in their drive for social justice and equality. The author examines the visual culture of first-wave feminists in Edwardian England and feminist developments in France. Late 20th century and 21st century women's movements are discussed in the context of how they continue to honor first-wave suffrage history.

Beyond the Frame

Beyond the Frame
Author: Deborah Cherry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135094837

Beyond the Frame rewrites the history of Victorian art to explore the relationships between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and political struggle. Artists were caught up in campaigns for women's enfranchisement, education and paid work, and many were drawn into controversies about sexuality. This richly documented and compelling study considers painting, sculpture, prints, photography, embroidery and comic drawings as well as major styles such as Pre-Raphaelitism, Neo-Classicism and Orientalism. Drawing on critical theory and post-colonial studies to analyse the links between visual media, modernity and imperialism, Deborah Cherry argues that visual culture and feminism were intimately connected to the relations of power.

Exploring Women's Studies

Exploring Women's Studies
Author: Carol Berkin
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

"For upper/graduate-level Womens Studies courses; upper-level Womens History courses; US History courses; and English Literature courses.This important reader for women's studies contains selections by twenty scholars who have won Woodrow Wilson Fellowships in Womens Studies over the last 30 years and have helped establish and further this subject as an important discipline; they write about the changes in their fields, their recent research, and the theoretical underpinnings of their work. This is an indispensable book for instructors and students who want to know what contemporary scholars can tell us about womens lives and notions of gender in history, literature, the arts, and the social sciences; how they write about their findings; and how they define issues and develop approaches to their subjects." -- Publisher's description.

Women, Art, and Society

Women, Art, and Society
Author: Whitney Chadwick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A wave of new scholarship floods her text....Chadwick opens up whole new ways of thinking about familiar images.--Women's Art Journal

With Other Eyes

With Other Eyes
Author: Lisa Bloom
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1999
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780816632237

With Other Eyes demonstrates how feminist, postcolonial, and antiracist concerns can successfully be incorporated into the study of art.

Revolutionary Feminisms

Revolutionary Feminisms
Author: Brenna Bhandar
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788737784

A unique book, tracing forty years of anti-racist feminist thought In a moment of rising authoritarianism, climate crisis, and ever more exploitative forms of neoliberal capitalism, there is a compelling and urgent need for radical paradigms of thought and action. Through interviews with key revolutionary scholars, Bhandar and Ziadah present a thorough discussion of how anti-racist, anti-capitalist feminisms are crucial to building effective political coalitions. Collectively, these interviews with leading scholars including Angela Y. Davis, Silvia Federici, and many others, trace the ways in which black, indigenous, post-colonial and Marxian feminisms have created new ways of seeing, new theoretical frameworks for analysing political problems, and new ways of relating to one another. Focusing on migration, neo-imperial militarism, the state, the prison industrial complex, social reproduction and many other pressing themes, the range of feminisms traversed in this volume show how freedom requires revolutionary transformation in the organisation of the economy, social relations, political structures, and our psychic and symbolic worlds. The interviews include Avtar Brah, Gail Lewis and Vron Ware on Diaspora, Migration and Empire. Himani Bannerji, Gary Kinsman, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Silvia Federici on Colonialism, Capitalism, and Resistance. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Avery F. Gordon and Angela Y. Davis on Abolition Feminism.

J.W. Waterhouse

J.W. Waterhouse
Author: Elizabeth Prettejohn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN:

With his grand scale and richly colored canvases and studies, John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) was one of the most influential painters of the 19th century. In this brilliantly illustrated survey, edited by a leading Waterhouse scholar, the painter's seductive vision of femininity is captured in sumptuous reproductions and illuminated by an engaging and informative text. Published to accompany an important exhibition of the artist's work, the book explores Waterhouse's creative responses to such contemporary concerns as medievalism, the classical tradition, and spiritualism. A comprehensive examination of his life and work, including his well-known painting "The Lady of Shallott, "this volume explores also the artist's connection to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and his engagement with French art of the period.

The Visual Culture Reader

The Visual Culture Reader
Author: Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 766
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780415252218

This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of The Visual Culture Readerbrings together key writings as well as specially commissioned articles covering a wealth of visual forms including photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture. The Readerfeatures an introductory section tracing the development of visual culture studies in response to globalization and digital culture, and articles grouped into thematic sections, each prefaced by an introduction by the editor and conclude with suggestions for further reading.