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.
Sexually Explicit Art, Feminist Theory, and Gender in the 1970s
1st Edition
By Christian Liclair
January 29, 2024
Structured around sexual desire as the central analytical category, this monograph systematically approaches a heterogeneous array of artworks to purposefully examine the entanglements of art, feminist theory, gender, and sexuality. This book considers the potential of sexually explicit art to ...
French Women Orientalist Artists, 1861–1956: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Depictions of Difference
1st Edition
By Mary Kelly
October 09, 2023
This book is the first full-length study dedicated to French women Orientalist artists. Mary Kelly has gathered primary documentation relating to seventy-two women artists whose works of art can be placed in the canon of French Orientalism between 1861 and 1956. Bringing these artists together ...
On the Nude: Looking Anew at the Naked Body in Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Chare, Ersy Contogouris
September 25, 2023
This book provides a timely reappraisal of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of art – the naked body. Beginning with reflections on what denuding entails and means, the volume then shifts to a consideration of body politics in the context of Black political empowerment, disability, ...
Iconic Works of Art by Feminists and Gender Activists: Mistress-Pieces
1st Edition
Edited
By Brenda Schmahmann
May 31, 2023
In this book, contributors identify and explore a range of iconic works – "Mistress-Pieces" – that have been made by feminists and gender activists since the 1970s. The first volume for which the defining of iconic feminist art is the raison d’être, its contributors interpret a "Mistress-Piece...
Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries, 1900–1960
1st Edition
Edited
By Kerry Greaves
May 31, 2023
This transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from, or worked in, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sápmi, and Sweden from the emergence of modernism until the feminist movement took shape in the 1960s. The book addresses the culturally specific conditions that ...
Transnational Perspectives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985
1st Edition
Edited
By Jen Kennedy, Trista Mallory, Angelique Szymanek
May 31, 2023
Transnational Perspecives on Feminism and Art, 1960–1985 is a collection of essential essays that bring transnational feminist praxis into conversation with histories of feminist art in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. The artistic practices and processes examined within these pages all centre ...
Representing Duchess Anna Amalia's Bildung: A Visual Metamorphosis in Portraiture from Political to Personal in Eighteenth-Century Germany
1st Edition
By Christina K. Lindeman
January 21, 2023
The cultural milieu in the “Age of Goethe” of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers’ patroness: Anna Amalia, Duchess of Weimar-Sachsen-Eisenach. An important noblewoman and patron of the arts, Anna Amalia transformed her court into one ...
Feminist Visual Activism and the Body
1st Edition
Edited
By Basia Sliwinska
August 01, 2022
This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and engage with the current sense of crisis and political concerns (e.g. equality, decolonisation, social justice, democracy, precarity, vulnerability), ...
Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art: Agency, Performance, and Representation
1st Edition
By Ersy Contogouris
June 30, 2020
This book offers a renewed look at Emma Hamilton, the eighteenth-century celebrity who was depicted by many major artists, including Angelica Kauffman, George Romney, and Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun. Adopting an art historical and feminist lens, Ersy Contogouris analyzes works of art in which Hamilton ...
Female Body Image in Contemporary Art: Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness
1st Edition
By Emily L. Newman
June 30, 2020
Numerous contemporary artists, particularly female artists, have chosen to examine the idealization of the female body. In this crucial book, Emily L. Newman focuses on a number of key themes including obesity, anorexia, bulimia, dieting, self-harm, and female body image. Many artists utilize their...