Being and Becoming Visible

Women, Performance, and Visual Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Av Olga M. Mesropova, Stacey Weber-Fève, Olga M. (Iowa State University) Mesropova, Stacey (Iowa State University) Weber-Feve, Olga M Mesropova

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Spanning geographical, cultural, and methodological boundaries, the essays in Being and Becoming Visible examine female representation in a variety of performative and visual media. Olga M. Mesropova and Stacey Weber-Feve situate the disciplines of visual culture and performance studies within two conceptual frameworks-multicultural and feminist-through the overarching thematic trope of visibility. The contributors offer a mix of sociohistorical, ethnographic, ideological, postcolonial, and cultural approaches to the study of female representation in performance, visual, and consumer cultures. They examine curatorship, mythological representation of women, the interrelationship of mother and child, domestic gender roles, domestic abuse, and indigenous female representation. The volume includes case studies related to such diverse genres and media as theater, cinema, painting, television, performance activism, and photography from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.Instructors in feminist, cultural, and media studies who are looking for global perspectives will find that this fresh and provocative volume encourages students to see new connections among a variety of trends in contemporary scholarship.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-10-27
Mått152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFeminist Formations Reader
Antal sidor288
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801894947

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik
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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik

Introduction Chapter 1. Feminist Exhibitionism: When the Women's Studies Professor Is a CuratorPart I: Spectators, Spectacles, and Cultural IconsChapter 2. Diana Doubled: The Fairytale Princess and the PhotographerChapter 3. Alice Neel's Portraits of Mother WorkChapter 4. Practical Perfection? The Nanny Negotiates Gender, Class, and Family Contradictions in 1960s Popular Culture Chapter 5. Millions "Love Lucy": Commodification and the Lucy PhenomenonPart II: Explicit Selves, Explicit BodiesChapter 6. Fractured Borders: Women's Cancer and Feminist TheaterChapter 7. Representing Domestic Violence: Ambivalence and Difference in What's Love Got to Do with ItChapter 8. The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poor Women, Power, and the Politics of Feminist RepresentationChapter 9. Fashion Photography and Women's Modernity in Weimar Germany: The Case of Yva Part III: Iconographies of Communal IdentityChapter 10. Iconographies of Gender, Poverty, and Power in Contemporary South African Visual CultureChapter 11. Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Gendered Collective Action: The Case of Women of the Storm Following Hurricane KatrinaChapter 12. The Representation of the Indigenous Other in Daughters of the Dust and The PianoList of Contributors

"Being and Becoming Visible is a remarkable compilation of previously published articles that examine female representation from feminist perspectives in a variety of performative and visual media across geographical and disciplinary boundaries. The collection is a valuable text for use in courses that focus on visual culture, representation, gender identity, and the media." - Jill Bystydzienski, The Ohio State University"