Iconic Works of Art by Feminists and Gender Activists

Brenda Schmahmann is Professor and the SARChI Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

• IntroductionBrenda SchmahmannPart I: Reconfiguring Domestic Life 1. The Aesthetic Labour of Protest, Now and Then: The Women’s Peace Camp at Greenham Common (1981-2000)Alexandra Kokoli2. "Middle fingers up, put them hands high": Rethinking Tracey Moffatt’s Scarred for Life (1994)Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore3. Bodies, Borders, and Law: Tanja Ostojić’s Looking for a Husband with EU Passport (2000-05)Hilary Robinson4. Household Matters: Usha Seejarim’s Venus at Home (2012) and the Politics of Women’s WorkBrenda SchmahmannPart II: Critiquing Gender Violence and Abuse 5. Hannah Wilke’s S.O.S. Starification Object Series (1974-82) in the Era of #MeTooMarissa Vigneault6. Private Trauma, Public Healing: Hannan Abu Hussein’s The Vagina Series (begun 2002)Tal Dekel7. Transgressive Martyrs in Diane Victor’s Wise and Foolish Virgins (2008)Karen von Veh8. Swoon’s Medea (2017) as a Feminist Intervention: Re-producing the MaternalPaula J. BirnbaumPart III: Great Goddess Iconographies9. Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Series (1973-80): In and Out of FeminismSherry Buckberrough 10. Clara Menéres’ Woman-Earth-Life (1977) and the Politics of Censorship, Concealment and VandalismLaura Castro11. The Female Body and Spirituality in Ilse Fusková’s El Zapallo (1982) SeriesMaría Laura RosaPart IV: Body Politics 12. Who is Afraid of Natalia LL? Consumer Art (1972-75) and the Pleasures and Dangers of Feminist Art in Communist PolandJoanna Inglot13. An Icon for the Aged: Alice Neel’s Self-Portrait (1980)Pamela Allara14. Phaptawan Suwannakudt’s Akojorn (1995): Connecting WomenYvonne Low15. Into the grave and back: Psychosomatic passage through grief in Lindi Arbi’s Unearthed (2009)Irene Bronner

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