Women in Mexican Folk Art

Eli Bartra is a philosopher and forerunner in research on women and folk art in different parts of the world but particularly Mexico. She co-founded the Women, Identity and Power area of the Department of Politics and Culture of the Autonomous Metropolitan University Xochimilco in Mexico City.

• Folk Art and some of its Myths Women and Votive Paintings Judas was not a Woman, but - Fantastic Arts: Alebrijes and Ocumichos Monsters of a Thousand Colors Laughing Little Devils 'High' Art in Ocumicho Frida Kahlo on a Visit to Ocotlan: 'The Painting's One Thing, the Clay's Another' The Paintings on the Sarapes of Teotitlan From Humble Rag Dolls to Zapatistas Embroiderers of Miracles

"Women's studies professor Bartra writes provocatively and compellingly about the role of women artists in society... Her documentation of Mexican women artists, a group generally ignored in art history scholarship, is important and necessary... Bartra construct[s] the relevant critical structures by which readers can arrive at a fuller and fairer comprehension of the cultural roles and activities of women artists in their societies. Recommended."-J. B. Wolford "Choice "