ABSTRACT

In Generations and Geographies in the Visual Achallenge of Arts: Feminist Readings the challenge of contemporary feminist theory encounters the provocation of the visual arts made by women in the twentieth century. The major issue is difference: sexual, cultural and social. The book points to the singularity of each artist's creative negotiation of time and historical and political circumstance. Griselda Pollock calls attention to the significance of place, location and cultural diversity, connecting issues of sexuality to those of nationality, imperialism, migration, diaspora and genocide.

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PART I Stagesetting

chapter 1|26 pages

The politics of theory:

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PART II Thinking theory: reading critically

chapter 2|24 pages

Reading Art?

chapter 3|22 pages

The knotted subject:

chapter 4|11 pages

Gossip as testimony:

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PART III The body

chapter 5|28 pages

The Venus Pudica:

chapter 8|13 pages

The anorexic body:

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PART IV Artist’s Pages

chapter |8 pages

Beach House

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PART V The maternal

chapter 9|30 pages

Maternal figures:

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PART VI The land

chapter 11|27 pages

CeciliaVicuña’s Ouvrage:1

chapter 12|12 pages

‘Resting’ in history:

chapter 13|31 pages

Embodied geographies:

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PART VII History

chapter 4|16 pages

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