Seeing and consciousness : women, class and representation / Gen Doy

By:

Doy, Gen

Publication details: Oxford ; Washington : Berg, 1995Edition: 1st edDescription: vii, 205 p., [54] p. de làmISBN:

1859730175

Summary: Is it true that Marxism has no mechanism for understanding women’s oppression and analyzing representations of women? How valid are the alternatives posed to Marxism by feminist and postmodernist theories? Have women’s always been written out of the history of Modernism by patriarchal omission, or is the reality of women’s lived experience and cultural production more complex and contradictory than 'erasure' suggests?. Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist approaches to women's art and female representations, this book challenge’s the widespread belief that Marxism has nothing valuable to contribute to women's studies. The author argues that from the French Revolution through to the present, gender and class have shaped visual imagery. She shows how Marxist theory can function to question some of the premises of feminist art histories and to provide a more accurate understanding of the meaning(s) of visual imagery. (Font: Editor)

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Acknowledgements -- Plate Section -- Introduction -- 1. Marxist theory, feminism(s) and women's history -- 2. Women and the bourgeois revolution of 1789: artists, mothers and markers of (art) history -- 3. Gender and class in early modernist painting: a reassessment -- 4. Women, class and photography: the Paris commune of 1871 -- 5. Russia and the Soviet Union c.1880-c.1940: "patriarchal" culture or "totalitarian androgeny"? -- 1. Women and Nazi art: Nazi women and art -- The postmodern, gender and race -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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