Overview

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-Feve 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.

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Author:   Olga M. Mesropova (Iowa State University) ,  Stacey Weber-Fève (Iowa State University)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780801894947

ISBN 10:   0801894948
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   27 October 2010
Recommended Age:   From 13
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"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"

Reviews

Being and Becoming Visible is a remarkable compilation of previously published articles that examine female representation from feminist perspectives in a variety of performative and visual media across geographical and disciplinary boundaries. The collection is a valuable text for use in courses that focus on visual culture, representation, gender identity, and the media. - Jill Bystydzienski, The Ohio State University

This lucid and highly accessible 'exhibition' of essays attests to the productive cross-pollination between performance studies and visual culture and, more importantly, the ways that feminist scholars have shaped notions of visibility and visuality that animate the interdisciplinary terrain shared by these fields. -- Laura Levin Theatre Research International Highly recommended. -- Margaret Gillespie Cercles

Author Information

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

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