Contemporary Feminist Art By Women in North Africa - Body Talks

Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa examines perceptions of the female body as both a subject and an object of aesthetic discourse in the works of six contemporary Maghrebi female artists. The book includes discussions of several artistic mediums including photography, painting, videos, and installations.

List of contents

Chapter 1
Ornate Bodies: Symbolic Markers of the Arab Female Body in Majida Khattari's Photography

Chapter 2
The Elusiveness of Arab Women and their Subversive Presence in the Architectural Photographic Space of Lalla Essaydi

Chapter 3
Women's Body, Empowerment and "Soft Transgression" in Some of Zoulikha Bouabdellah's artworks

Chapter 4
Transgressive Bodies: Exploring the Outlier Identities and Bodies in Déborah Benzaquen's Photography

Chapter 5
Liberating the Body in Fatima Mazmouz's photographic work: from the Personal to the Political

Chapter 6
Decriminalizing the Body: Art and Nudity against the Hshouma by Zaïnab Fasiki

About the author

Ramona Mielusel is associate professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Product details

• Authors: Ramona Mielusel
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2024
• EAN: 9781666949940
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-994-0
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; ART / History / General, HISTORY / Africa / North, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, ART / African, ART / Women Artists, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Feminism & feminist theory, African History, North Africa, Feminism and feminist theory