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

Gendered Bodies : : Toward a Women's Visual Art in Contemporary China / / Shuqin Cui.

Gendered Bodies introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aesthetic exper...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Cui, Shuqin,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 114 color and 2 black & white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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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