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The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader is a book that gathers together different essays that address feminism and visual culture. The book is divided into six sections, each with its own introduction by the editor. The first section, "Introducing Feminism and Visual Culture," provides a brief introduction to feminism and visual culture. The second section, "Visualizing Feminism," discusses different ways in which feminists have visualized their experiences. The third section, "Representing Feminism," looks at how feminists have been represented in art and film. The fourth section, "Feminist Perspectives on Architecture," discusses how feminists have approached architecture. The fifth section, "Feminist Perspectives on Popular Culture," looks at how feminists have approached popular culture. The sixth and final section, "Feminist Perspectives on New Media," looks at how feminists have approached new media.
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 feminist perspective. The essays, 40% of which are new to the second edition, are informed by the authors' deep attention to historical, geographical, and disciplinary contexts as well as by cutting edge concerns such as globalization, diasporic cultural shifts, developments in new media technologies, and intersectional identity politics.
The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader combines classic texts with six specially commissioned pieces, all by leading feminist critics, historians, theorists, artists, and activists. Articles are grouped into thematic sections, each of which is introduced by the editor. Providing a framework within which to understand the shifts in feminist thinking in visual studies, as well as an overview of major feminist theories of the visual, this reader also explores how issues of race, class, nationality, and sexuality enter into debates about feminism in the field of the visual.
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