The Feminism and Visual Culture ReaderAmelia Jones Bringing together key writings on art, film, architecture, popular culture, new media and other visual fields, this key reader combines classic texts by leading feminist thinkers with six previously unpublished polemical new pieces. It explores how issues of race, class, nationality and sexuality, enter into debates about feminism, and includes work by feminist critics, artists and activists. Articles are grouped into six thematic sections: * representation A valuable reference for students of visual culture and gender studies, this is both a framework within which to understand the shifts in feminist thinking in visual studies and an overview of the most significant feminist theories in this area. |
Contents
CONCEIVING THE INTERSECTION OF FEMINISM AND VISUAL CULTURE | 5 |
Provocations | 13 |
FEMINIST VIEWING VIEWING FEMINISM | 15 |
FEAR AND LOATHING IN NEW YORK AN IMPOLITE ANECOOTE ABOUT THE INTERFACE OF HOMOPHOBIA AND MISOGYNY | 19 |
CREATING TRANSNATIONAL WOMENS ART NETWORKS | 22 |
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER BLACK FEMINIST VISUAL THEORY | 26 |
NEXT BODIES | 30 |
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF SIGHT | 33 |
THE SOCIAL AND THE POETIC FEMINIST PRACTICES IN ARCHITECTURE 19702000 | 281 |
Mass CultureMedia Interventions | 287 |
HATEFUL CONTRARIES MEDIA IMAGES OF ASIAN WOMEN | 291 |
THE SEARCH FOR TOMORROW IN TODAYS SOAP OPERAS | 298 |
FEMINIST MEDIA STRATEGIES FOR POLITICAL PERFORMANCE | 306 |
FEMINISM INCORPORATED READING POSTFEMINISM IN AN ANTIFEMINIST AGE | 318 |
THE SUBURBAN HOME COMPANION TELEVISION AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD IDEAL IN POSTWAR AMERICA | 333 |
BLACK BARBIE AND THE DEEP PLAY OF DIFFERENCE | 341 |
Representation | 37 |
FROM WAYS OF SEEING | 41 |
FEMALE IMAGERY | 44 |
VISUAL PLEASURE AND NARRATIVE CINEMA | 48 |
TEXTUAL STRATEGIES THE POLITICS OF ARTMAKING | 57 |
FILM AND THE MASQUERADE THEORIZING THE FEMALE SPECTATOR | 64 |
DESIRING IMAGESIMAGING DESIRE | 76 |
SCREENING THE SEVENTIES SEXUALITY AND REPRESENTATION | 80 |
THE OPPOSITIONAL GAZE BLACK FEMALE SPECTATORS | 98 |
BROKEN SYMMETRIES MEMORY SIGHT LOVE | 109 |
Difference | 119 |
ANY THEORY OF THE SUBJECT HAS ALWAYS BEEN APPROPRIATED BY THE MASCULINE | 123 |
LESBIAN ARTISTS | 132 |
THE STRAIGHT MIND | 134 |
BLACK BODIES WHITE BODIES TOWARD AN ICONOGRAPHY OF FEMALE SEXUALITY IN LATE NINETEENTHCENTURY ART MEDICI... | 140 |
DIFFERENCE A SPECIAL THIRD WORLD WOMEN ISSUE | 155 |
OLYMPIAS MAID RECLAIMING BLACK FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY | 178 |
A POSTTRANSSEXUAL MANIFESTO | 191 |
COLOR AND DIFFERENCE IN ABSTRACT PAINTING THE ULTIMATE CASE OF MONOCHROME | 196 |
THE OTHER HISTORY OF INTERCULTURAL PERFORMANCE | 209 |
THE WHITE TO BE ANGRY VAGINAL CREME DAVISS TERRORIST DRAG | 221 |
DisciplinesStrategies | 229 |
WHY HAVE THEME BEEN NO GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS? | 233 |
FEMINISM AND FILM CRITICAL APPROACHES | 238 |
THE TRIPLE NEGATION OF COLORED WOMEN ARTISTS | 243 |
PATRILINEAGE | 253 |
BATHSHEBA OR THE INTERIOR BIBLE | 260 |
GOSSIP AS TESTIMONY A POSTMODERN SIGNATURE | 272 |
INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION TO THE GUERRILLA GIRLS BESIDE COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART | 353 |
REFLECTIONS ON A YELLOW EYE ASIAN IEYECONS AND COSMETIC SURGERY | 358 |
FEAR OF FALLING | 368 |
Body | 373 |
EXTERNAL BOUNDARIES | 377 |
STREAMSALL THAT FLOWS AND WOMAN TERRITORY OF DESIRE | 379 |
PORNOGRAPHY | 391 |
APPROACHING ABJECTION | 393 |
PERFORMATIVE ACTS AND GENDER CONSTITUTION | 396 |
TOWARD A BUSTFEMME AESTHETIC | 406 |
REINSTATING CORPOREALITY FEMINISM AND BODY POLITICS | 418 |
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE BODY AND THE PRESENCE OF HISTORY TOWARD A FEMINIST ARCHITECTURE | 430 |
THE BALLERINAS PHALLIC POINTE | 438 |
NEVER JUST PICTURES | 458 |
EPILOGUE TO IMAGINARY BODIES ETHICS POWER AND CORPOREALITY | 470 |
Technology | 475 |
A CYBORG MANIFESTO SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIALISTFEMINISM IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY | 479 |
VIRTUAL BODIES AND FLICKERING SIGNIFIERS | 501 |
BODIESCITIES | 511 |
TO TOUCH THE OTHER A STORY OF CORPOELECTRONIC SURFACES | 518 |
POSTCOLONIAL MEDIA THEORY | 524 |
REFLECTIONS ON WOMEN AND VIRTUAL REALITY | 532 |
CYBERFEMINIST MANIFESTO | 534 |
CYBERFEMINISM WITH A DIFFERENCE | 535 |
THE APPENDED SUBJECT RACE AND IDENTITY AS DIGITAL ASSEMBLAGE | 538 |
MY WOMB THE MOSH PIT | 549 |
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