1st Edition

Art and Feminisms Histories, Methods, and Legacies

Edited By Erin Silver Copyright 2026
368 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

368 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Through an international cohort of contributors, this book examines the rich and diverse strands of artistic and cultural production from the nineteenth century to the present day that contribute to elastic and ever-expanding histories of feminist art. The contributions facilitate an understanding of the complex histories of feminist art, material, and cultural production for both new and... Read more

Introduction
Erin Silver

1        A Letter to Onyeka Igwe (notes on a Black sense of aesthetics)
Yaniya Lee

2        The end of the creative genius: women artists and critics in postwar Italy
Giovanna Zapperi

3        “And Others” – building intersectional feminist methodologies of collectivity: gender, labour, value
Lina Džuverovic

4        Under the Tightwire: an interview with Heather Evans
Sheena Hoszko

5        Cross-cultural (dis)encounters with Latin American feminist art, Mexico 1970s and Vancouver 1980s
Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda

6        Gender and maternity in Barbara Chase-Riboud’s early sculpture
Elyse Speaks

7        Unfolding material conditions in the nylon works of Senga Nengudi
Tatiana Mellema

8        Tears, stitches & transition: feminist textiles and a birth of QueerCrip aesthetics
Amanda Cachia

9        “Not Necessarily Not There”: dark energy in Dionne Simpson and Denyse Thomasos’s paintings
Joana Joachim

10    The invisible manifesto: art, agency, and implicit resistance in the GDR's Second Public Sphere, 1974-1989
Krista Bailie

11    The dancing ghazals of Mah Laqa Bai “Chanda”
Anu Aneja

12    Women in print: feminism’s collective artist’s book spaces
Anthea Black

13    Landless: ecological relationships in Puerto Rican and Afro-Caribbean feminisms
Katie Anania

14    Feminist archiving: a critical look at methodologies of (re)membering South African Black women artists from the twentieth century
Nontobeko Ntombela

15    Excavating Lesbian Legacies: Millie Wilson and Fauve Semblant: Peter (A Young English Girl)
Genevieve Flavelle

16    “Living in the earth-deposits of our history”: archival fabulations and feminist art history
Catherine Grant

17    Women and difference in feminism and feminist Art: Korea’s Women’s Art Festival ‘99: A Parade of Ugly Sisters
Ji Eun (Camille) Sung

18    Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Kent Monkman’s feminist decolonizing of art history
Ace Lehner

19    Intersectional transfeminism as methodology in global contemporary art history
Sascha Crasnow

20    Feminism in cyberspace
Jen Kennedy

Biography

Erin Silver is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at The University of British Columbia.