2nd Edition

The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader

Edited By Amelia Jones Copyright 2010
736 Pages
by Routledge

736 Pages
by Routledge

Feminism is one of the most important perspectives from which visual culture has been theorized and historicized over the past forty years. Challenging the notion of feminism as a unified discourse, this second edition of The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader assembles a wide array of writings that address art, film, architecture, popular culture, new media and other visual fields from a... Read more
List of Figures.  Notes on Contributors.  Acknowledgements.  Permissions. 1. Provocations  2. Representation  3. Differences  4. Histories  5. Readings / Interventions  6. Bodies  7. Technologies.  Index

Biography

Amelia Jones is Grierson Chair in Visual Culture in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montréal. She has organised exhibitions including Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History at the UCLA/Armand Hammer Art Museum (1996) and has edited other volumes, most notably Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945 (2006). Her most recent single-authored books include Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada (2004) and Self/Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (2006).

 

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