Re-framing representations of women
Subtitle: figuring, fashioning, portraiting, and telling in the 'Picturing' Women Project
By: edited by Susan Shifrin.
Contributors: Shifrin, Susan, 1961-; Picturing Women Project.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Alderhsot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780754660774
Subjects: Women in art; Gender identity in art; Arts, Modern -- 20th century; Arts, Modern -- 21st century; Women -- Social conditions
Description: "Crossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, this volume integrates text and image, essays and object pages to explore the processes inherent in gender representation, rather than resituating women in particular categories or spheres as other scholarly publications and exhibitions have done. Taking its lead from the 'Picturing' Women project on which it reflects and builds, the volume makes a substantial methodological contribution to the analysis of gender discourse and visuality. It offers new and stimulating scholarship confronting historical patterns of representation that have defined what women were and are seen to be, and presents new contexts for unveiling what art historian Linda Nochlin has called the 'mixed messages' of representations of women."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.