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.
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 ...
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 ...
Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy
1st Edition
By Valerie Hedquist
August 29, 2022
The reception of Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy from its origins to its appearances in contemporary visual culture reveals how its popularity was achieved and maintained by diverse audiences and in varied venues. Performative manifestations resulted in contradictory characterizations of the painted...