Politics, gender, and the arts
Subtitle: women, the arts, and society
By: edited by Ronald Dotterer and Susan Bowers
Contributors: Conference on Women, the Arts, and Society (1988 : Susquehanna University)
Series: Susquehanna University studies; Susquehanna University studies
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Selinsgrove, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Women in art -- Political aspects; Women in literature -- Political aspects; Feminism and the arts -- Political aspects
Notes: These essays were selected from presentations made at the Conference on Women, the Arts, and Society

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Definition of feminist art or feminist definition of art? / Selma Kraft; title: Recovering feminist aesthetics by reading a reaction on the left / Phyllis Culham; title: The relation of suffrage art to culture / Alice Sheppard; title: Herland : utopia in a different voice / Minna Doskow; title: Technology and the female in the Doctor Who series : companions or competitors? / Katherine Stannard; title: The actress as social activist : the case of Lena Ashwell / Claire Hirshfield; title: "With reluctant feet" : the meeting of childhood and womanhood in works by women artists / Mara R. Witzling; title: The womanly art of breastfeeding : art and discourse in nineteenth-century Britain / Leslie Williams; title: Housewives and their maids in Dutch seventeenth-century art / Wayne Franitis; title: Austen's shackles and feminine filiation / Chiara Briganti; title: The gender of American individualism : Fanny Fern, the novel, and the American dream / Joyce W. Warren; title: The thwarting of the artist as a young working class woman : gender and class acts in Eudora Welty's The Golden apples / Leslie K. Hankins; title: (con't) The historical dimensions of Mary Lee Settle's The Scapegoat : Appalachia, labor, and Mother Jones / Joyce Dyer; title: "Music at every meeting" : music in the National League of American Pen Women and the General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1920-1940 / Laurine Elkins-Marlow