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Informationen zum Autor Gen Doy De Montfort University Klappentext Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist approaches to women's art and female representations! this book challenges 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. Zusammenfassung Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist approaches to women's art and female representations, this book challenges 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Marxist theory, feminism(s) and women's history; women and the bourgeois revolution of 1789 - artists, mothers and markers of (art) history; gender and class in early modernist painting - a reassessment; women, class and photography - the Paris commune of 1871; Russia and the Soviet Union ca.1880-ca.1940 - patriarchal culture or totalitarian androgeny?; women and Nazi art - Nazi women and art; the postmodern, gender and race.
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Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist approaches to women's art and female representations, this book challenges the widespread belief that Marxism has nothing valuable to contribute to women's studies.
