Description
Book SynopsisInstructors in feminist, cultural, and media studies who are looking for global perspectives will find that this fresh and provocative volume encourages students to see new connections among a variety of trends in contemporary scholarship.
Trade Review"Being and Becoming Visible is a remarkable compilation of previously published articles that examine female representation from feminist perspectives in a variety of performative and visual media across geographical and disciplinary boundaries. The collection is a valuable text for use in courses that focus on visual culture, representation, gender identity, and the media." - Jill Bystydzienski, The Ohio State University"
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1. Feminist Exhibitionism: When the Women's Studies Professor Is a Curator
Part I: Spectators, Spectacles, and Cultural Icons
Chapter 2. Diana Doubled: The Fairytale Princess and the Photographer
Chapter 3. Alice Neel's Portraits of Mother Work
Chapter 4. Practical Perfection? The Nanny Negotiates Gender, Class, and Family Contradictions in 1960s Popular Culture
Chapter 5. Millions "Love Lucy": Commodification and the Lucy Phenomenon
Part II: Explicit Selves, Explicit Bodies
Chapter 6. Fractured Borders: Women's Cancer and Feminist Theater
Chapter 7. Representing Domestic Violence: Ambivalence and Difference in What's Love Got to Do with It
Chapter 8. The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poor Women, Power, and the Politics of Feminist Representation
Chapter 9. Fashion Photography and Women's Modernity in Weimar Germany: The Case of Yva
Part III: Iconographies of Communal Identity
Chapter 10. Iconographies of Gender, Poverty, and Power in Contemporary South African Visual Culture
Chapter 11. Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Gendered Collective Action: The Case of Women of the Storm Following Hurricane Katrina
Chapter 12. The Representation of the Indigenous Other in Daughters of the Dust and The Piano
List of Contributors
