Insurgent Muse
Subtitle: Life and Art at the Woman's Building
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780872864030
Subjects: Cultural studies; Women's studies; Social Science; History; Biography / Autobiography; Specific Groups - Lesbians; Los Angeles; Sociology; Literary; Lesbian Studies; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Social Science / Women's Studies; Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.); Biography; Women's Studies - General; 20th century; California; Feminism and the arts; Lesbians
Description: "In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist arts movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. Founded by artist Judy Chicago, the Woman's Building was conceived as a "public center for women's culture." Women from across the country were drawn there to be part of a community engaged in the exploration of what a female-centered culture might mean.".

"In Insurgent Muse, Terry Wolverton chronicles her own 13-year involvement in the Woman's Building. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, she stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian Art Project and, eventually, the Building's executive director. Her journey - emblematic of many women who sought to redefine themselves in the light of feminism - entails confrontation with the damages of sexism, the pitfalls of utopian community, and the forces of social backlash."--BOOK JACKET.