Being and Becoming Visible

Women, Performance, and Visual Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9494-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: A Feminist Formations Reader

Spanning geographical, cultural, and methodological boundaries, the essays in Being and Becoming Visible examine female representation in a variety of performative and visual media. Olga M. Mesropova and Stacey Weber-Fève situate the disciplines of visual culture and performance studies within two conceptual frameworks—multicultural and feminist—through the overarching thematic trope of visibility.

The contributors offer a mix of sociohistorical, ethnographic, ideological, postcolonial, and cultural approaches to the study of female representation in performance, visual, and consumer cultures. They examine curatorship, mythological representation of women, the interrelationship of mother and child, domestic gender roles, domestic abuse, and indigenous female representation. The volume includes case studies related to such diverse genres and media as theater, cinema, painting, television, performance activism, and photography from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Instructors in feminist, cultural, and media studies who are looking for global perspectives will find that this fresh and provocative volume encourages students to see new connections among a variety of trends in contemporary scholarship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mesropova, Olga M

Weber-Fève, Stacey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter 1. Feminist Exhibitionism: When the Women's Studies Professor Is a Curator
Part I: Spectators, Spectacles, and Cultural Icons
Chapter 2. Diana Doubled: The Fairytale Princess and the Photographer
Chapter 3. Alice Neel's Portraits of Mother Work
Chapter 4. Practical Perfection? The Nanny Negotiates Gender, Class, and Family Contradictions in 1960s Popular Culture
Chapter 5. Millions "Love Lucy": Commodification and the Lucy Phenomenon
Part II: Explicit Selves, Explicit Bodies
Chapter 6. Fractured Borders: Women's Cancer and Feminist Theater
Chapter 7. Representing Domestic Violence: Ambivalence and Difference in What's Love Got to Do with It
Chapter 8. The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poor Women, Power, and the Politics of Feminist Representation
Chapter 9. Fashion Photography and Women's Modernity in Weimar Germany: The Case of Yva
Part III: Iconographies of Communal Identity
Chapter 10. Iconographies of Gender, Poverty, and Power in Contemporary South African Visual Culture
Chapter 11. Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Gendered Collective Action: The Case of Women of the Storm Following Hurricane Katrina
Chapter 12. The Representation of the Indigenous Other in Daughters of the Dust and The Piano
List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Weber-Fève, Stacey
Stacey Weber-Fève is an assistant professor of French at Iowa State University.

Mesropova, Olga M
Olga M. Mesropova is an associate professor of Russian at Iowa State University.

Olga M. Mesropova is an associate professor of Russian at Iowa State University. Stacey Weber-Fève is an assistant professor of French at Iowa State University.