Gendered Bodies: Toward a Women's Visual Art in Contemporary China 9780824857424

Gendered Bodies introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process

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English Pages 280 [340] Year 2015

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Why Women’S Art? An Introduction
The (In)Visibility Of The Female Body In An Art Tradition: A Historical Framework
Part I. Gendering Of Historiography
1. Reimagining Women’S History And Gendering Historiography
2. The Pregnant Nude And Photographic Representation
Part II. Gendering Of Sexuality
3. The Sexual Subject: Sexing The Body, Reversing The Gaze
4. The Body In Abstraction: The World Of Flowers And Crafts
Part III. Gendering Of Pain
5. Performing The Body, Expressing Pain
6. Ephemeral Bodies: Object Choice And Material Practice
Part IV. Gendering Of Space
7. From Ruin Aesthetics To Urban Narratives
8. Cyborg Bodies: Transgression Across The Real And The Virtual
Postscript. An Impossible Closure: Gender Beyond The Body
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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