Nude and Naked Women in the Arts - Mexico and Beyond

Nude and Naked Women in the Arts: Mexico and Beyond is a study of female nudity as represented by men and women in Mexico and other parts of the world through analysis of both the high arts and folk arts. Eli Bartra explores the diverse forms of artistic expression and their link to the social construction of female gender. This approach is crucial to understanding how forms of discrimination are created and recreated - sometimes in very apparent ways and other times more subtly - and how they contribute to the perpetuation of gender hierarchies. Eli Bartra examines the assertion of gender differences in artistic creation and the sexist (and at times misogynistic) imagery of nude women as represented by men.

List of contents

Chapter I. On Female Creativity
Chapter II. Nudes in the West
Chapter III. Visual Arts Populated by Nudes
Chapter IV. Nudes in Mexican Art
Chapter V. Towards a Feminist Visual Perspective in Mexican Arts
Epilogue. On Similarity and Difference

About the author

Eli Bartra is distinguished professor in women's studies at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico City.

Summary

Nude and Naked Women in the Arts: Mexico and Beyond is a study of female nudity as represented by men and women in Mexico and other parts of the world through analysis of both high art and folk art.

Product details

• Authors: Eli Bartra, Bartra Eli
• Assisted by: Francesca Gargallo Celentani (Foreword), Ellen Jones (Translation), Jones Ellen (Translation), Andrea Knowles (Translation), Jessie Mendez Sayer (Translation), Jessie Méndez Sayer (Translation), Jessie Méndez Sayer (Translation)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781793647443
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-744-3
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, Latin America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, ART / Women Artists, Caribbean islands, Art treatments & subjects, Gender studies: women, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Gender studies: women and girls, The Arts: treatments and subjects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, artistic nudes;female body;feminism