Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism

by Norma Broude (Editor)

This volume is the third in an influential series of anthologies by editors Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard that challenge art history from a feminist perspective. Following their Feminism and Art Questioning the Litany (1982) and The Expanding Feminism and Art History (1992), this new volume identifies female agency as a central theme of recent feminist scholarship. Framed by a lucid and stimulating critical introduction, twenty-three essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the present, written in the 1990s and after, offer a nuanced critique of the poststructuralist premises of 1980s feminist art history.



Allison Arieff, Janis Bergman-Carton, Babette Bohn, Norma Broude, Anna C. Chave, Julie Cole, Bridget Elliott, Mary D. Garrard, Sheila ffolliott, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Ruth E. Iskin, Geraldline A. Johnson, Amelia Jones, Maud Lavin, Julie Nicoletta, Carol Ockman, Erica Rand, John B. Ravenal, Lisa Saltzman, Mary D. Sheriff

Genres: Art, Feminism, Art History, Nonfiction, Gender Studies

486 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Jonette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting...odd and out there!

[Abigail · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this for my feminist art class this semester. It was enlightening and really fascinating.

[KaliNoel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is definitely a collection of it's time, by two white scholars. Still, selections in it echoed new ideas of gender and sexuality that have rooted themselves in modern activism.