ABSTRACT

Transnational Perspecives on Feminism and Art, 1960–1985 is a collection of essential essays that bring transnational feminist praxis into conversation with histories of feminist art in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s.

The artistic practices and processes examined within these pages all centre on gender and sexual politics as they variously intersect with race, class, sovereignty, Indigeneity, citizenship, and migration at particular historical moments and within specific geopolitical contexts. The book’s central premise is that reconsidering this period from transnational feminist perspectives will enable new thinking about the critical commonalities and differences across heterogeneous and geographically dispersed practices that have contributed to the complex and multifaceted relationship between feminism and art today.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural studies, visual culture, material culture, and gender studies.

chapter |24 pages

Introduction

Locating and Dislocating Feminisms

part 1|62 pages

Constructing

chapter 261|14 pages

Reviewing a 1960s Mi'kmaq Ribbon Skirt

Reclamation, Resilience, and Resistance

chapter 2|16 pages

Winding Up to Be Unfurled

Art History as Casa Espiral

chapter 3|15 pages

Insubordinate Bodies

Staging Protest and Torture in Regina Vater's 1973 Nós Performance

chapter 4|15 pages

Nil Yalter's Topak Ev

The Nomadic Tent Between “Worlds”

part 2|50 pages

Mediating

chapter 885|17 pages

Creation Stories

Australian Arts Feminism

chapter 6|16 pages

Tseng Kwong Chi

1979 and the Liminal Trans of Racial and Sexual Politics

chapter 7|15 pages

Shades of Discrimination

The Emergence of Feminist Art in Apartheid South Africa

part 3|64 pages

Performing

chapter 1388|15 pages

Against the Body

Interpreting Ana Mendieta

chapter 9|15 pages

Jung Kang-Ja

A Pioneer of Korean Experimental Art of the 1960s and 1970s

chapter 10|16 pages

“Really African, and Really Kabuki Too”

Afro-Asian Possibility in the Work of Senga Nengudi

chapter 11|16 pages

Kirsten Justesen

The Body as a Feminist and Artistic Tool