Routledge Research in Gender and Art
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Gender and Art is a new series in art history and visual studies, focusing on gender, sexuality, and feminism. Proposals for monographs and edited collections on this topic are welcomed.
Morisot’s Modernism and Impressionist Art: Interiors, Relationships, and Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Claire Moran
September 29, 2025
This volume seeks to reframe French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot (1841-95) in the history of art via a focus on the spaces and people that informed her work and thereby offer a new interpretation of Impressionism and of modernist aesthetics. Claire Moran utilizes close visual analyses of...
Women and Photography in Apartheid South Africa
1st Edition
By Marie Meyerding
April 28, 2025
Tracing the lives and works of five women in four case studies, author Marie Meyerding examines the representation of women in the field of photography in South Africa in the second half of the twentieth century. All of them are critically understudied, with no existing scholarship dedicated ...
Everyday Joys in Twenty-First Century Queer American Painting: Ecstatic Ordinarinesses
1st Edition
By David Deutsch
January 30, 2025
Taken together, the chapters in this book outline a theory and a practice of painting ecstatic ordinarinesses in contemporary, diverse American queer life. To do so, it offers the first sustained study of five individually renowned twenty-first-century queer painters—Gio Black Peter, Doron Langberg...
Intimacy, Photography, Shame: 1969–1992
1st Edition
By Harrison Adams
December 03, 2024
This study argues that intimacy requires an overcoming of shame, and each of these artists, in their own way, uses photography to frame moments that can be shameful to some and intimate others, leaving it to the viewer to navigate this affectively perilous terrain. From the cancellation of ...
Food, Feminism, and Women’s Art in 1970s Southern California
1st Edition
By Emily Elizabeth Goodman
October 04, 2024
This book explores how feminist artists continued to engage with kitchen culture and food practices in their work as women’s art moved from the margins to the mainstream. In particular, this book examines the use of food in the art practices of six women artists and collectives working in Southern ...
Artist-Parents in Contemporary Art: Gender, Identity, and Domesticity
1st Edition
By Barbara Kutis
August 26, 2024
This book examines the increasing intersections of art and parenting from the late 1990s to the early 2010s, when constructions of masculine and feminine identities, as well as the structure of the family, underwent radical change. Barbara Kutis asserts that the championing of the simultaneous ...
Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury
1st Edition
By Lucy Weir
August 20, 2024
This book is an ambitious and expansive examination of the visual language of self-injury in performance art from the 1960s to the present. Inspired by the gendered nature of discussion around self-harm, the book challenges established readings of risk-taking and self-injury in global performance ...
Nell Walden, Der Sturm, and the Collaborative Cultures of Modern Art
1st Edition
By Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe
May 27, 2024
Based on hitherto overlooked archival material, this book reveals Nell Walden’s significant impact on the Sturm organisation through a feminist reading of supportive labour that highlights the centrality of collaborative work within the modern art world. This book introduces Walden as an ardent ...
Women, Collecting, and Cultures Beyond Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Arlene Leis
May 27, 2024
This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally. The edited volume builds on recent research and offers a wider lens through which to examine and challenge women’s collecting histories. Spanning from the seventeenth century to the ...
Women Photographers and Mexican Modernity: Framing the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia R. Brown, Radmila Stefkova, Tamara R. Williams
February 27, 2024
The photographers discussed in this book probe the most contentious aspects of social organization in Mexico, questioning what it means to belong, to be Mexican, to experience modernity, and to create art as a culturally, politically, or racially marginalized person. By choosing human subjects, ...
Queer Methodology for Photography
1st Edition
By Asa Johannesson
February 01, 2024
This book presents new ways of approaching photographic discourse from a queer perspective, offering discussions on what a queering methodology for photography may entail by drawing links between artistic strategies in photographic practice and key theoretical concepts from photography theory, ...
Gender and the Woman Artist in Early Modern Iberia
1st Edition
By Catherine Hall-van den Elsen
January 31, 2024
This monograph explores the social constructs surrounding artistic production in early modern Iberia through the lenses of gender and class by examining the rarely considered contribution of creative women in Spain and Portugal between 1550 and 1700. Using the life-stage framework popular in texts ...