{"product_id":"women-made-visible-9781496202031","title":"Women Made Visible","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e2020Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) Book Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In post-1968 Mexico a group of artistsand feminist activists began to question how feminine bodies were visually constructed and politicized across media. Participation of women was increasing in the public sphere, and the exclusive emphasis on written culture was giving way to audio-visual communications. Motivated by a desire for self-representation both visually and in politics, female artists and activiststransformedexisting regimes of media and visuality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen Made Visible\u003c\/i\u003e by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda uses a transnational and interdisciplinary lens to analyzethe fundamental and overlooked role played by artists and feminist activists in changing the ways female bodies were viewed and appropriated. Through their concern for self-representation (both visually and in formal politics), these women played a crucial role in transforming existing regimes of med\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWomen Made Visible\u003c\/i\u003e is meticulously and creatively researched thanks to the access that the author gained to personal and institutional archives, and to the detailed interviews she conducted with art practitioners and feminist activists. . . . This book will be of interest to scholars of visual and art history and feminist studies, as well as to urban historians, particularly those concerned with the ways in which metropolises like Mexico City become places where countercultural movements flourish.\"—Tania Islas Weinstein, \u003ci\u003eLatin Americanist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Timely and necessary, \u003ci\u003eWomen Made Visible\u003c\/i\u003e advances the field of Latin American, Chicanx, and Latinx art history.\"—Teresa Eckmann, \u003ci\u003eWoman's Art Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWomen Made Visible\u003c\/i\u003e may be of interest to students and scholars who study art, feminism, Mexico, politics, and history.\"—Margarita H.Tapia, \u003ci\u003eCommunication Booknotes Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda brilliantly contrasts two primary sources that are not normally read together: private artist archives (and interviews with the artist-archivists) and state security archives. The author’s deeply researched—and theoretically and methodologically sophisticated—study will be an extraordinary resource for this subfield of video art and experimental film in Mexico.”—George Flaherty, author of \u003ci\u003eHotel Mexico: Dwelling on the ’68 Movement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An impressive foundation. \u003ci\u003eWomen Made Visible\u003c\/i\u003e adds important women artists to the canon of Mexican art history. Written in a brisk, accessible, but still sophisticated prose style, this book will serve novice and specialist alike.”—Mary K. Coffey, author of \u003ci\u003eHow a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: Murals, Museums, and the Mexican State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Women Made Visible    \u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Feminizing the City\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Official City    \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Media City    \u003cbr\u003e 3. The Embodied City    \u003cbr\u003e Part 2. The Archival Practices of a Visual Letrada\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Archival and Political Awakenings of Ana Victoria Jiménez    \u003cbr\u003e 5. Secret Documents and Feminist Practices    \u003cbr\u003e 6. Performing Feminist Art    \u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Protesting the Archive\u003cbr\u003e 7. Interrupting Photographic Traditions    \u003cbr\u003e 8. Feminist Collaborations in 1970s Mexico    \u003cbr\u003e 9. POLArizing the Archive    \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: New and Emergent Visual Letradas    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409217102167,"sku":"9781496202031","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496202031.jpg?v=1730505987","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-made-visible-9781496202031","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}