Women, destruction, and the avant-garde : a paradigm for animal liberation / / Kim Socha.

This interdisciplinary study fuses analysis of feminist literature and manifestos, radical political theory, critical vanguard studies, women’s performance art, and popular culture to argue for the animal liberation movement as successor to the liberationist visions of the early twentieth-century av...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
:
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Critical animal studies ; 1
Critical Animal Studies 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
Notes:"This interdisciplinary study fuses analysis of feminist literature and manifestos, radical political theory, critical vanguard studies, women's performance art, and popular culture to argue for the animal liberation movement as successor to the liberationist visions of the early twentieth-century avant-gardes, most especially the Surrealists"--Page (4) of cover.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Rooting for the Avant-Garde
  • Avant-Garde Women Writers and Destruction in the Flesh
  • Staring Back in the Flesh: Avant-Garde Performance as an ALM Paradigm
  • Convulsive Beauty, Infinite Spheres and Irrational Reasons—Reverie on a New Consciousness
  • Love and Laughter Now: Plucking at Stems or Uprooting Oppression?
  • Works Cited
  • Index.