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This book illuminates arts activist interventions that raise consciousness and advocacy for women's right to a life free from violence.
List of contents
Introduction Opening chapter:
The Patchwork Healing Blanket: An Ongoing Network of Resistance to Gender Violence
Part I: Violations of bodily integrity and autonomy 1. Stolen Blak female bodies: necklaces as resistance and disruptors 2. The visual sociology of the
manqhapacha. Aníbal López's
Anthology of the violence in Guatemala and gender-based violence in Latin American art 3.
Anonymous in Menstrual Red: arts activism against honour-based killing in Kuwait 4. Female Genital Mutilation: The Dead Kapok Tree as a Metonymical Tool of Resistance in Rural Ghana
Part II: Reproductive violence 5.
Abortion Tales by Beata Rojek and Sonia Sobiech: feminist storying of reproductive healthcare in Poland 6. Breadbox: promoting access to safe abortion care through peer-to-peer education and art 7. The Trouble with Showing: Visualising Forced Pregnancy
Part III: Domestic violence 8. Writing as a Strategy of 'Weak Resistance' in Transnational Feminist Arts Activism 9. In the home but not at home: the invisible violence on migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong
Part IV: Sexual violence 10. Against the Torture of Women: women artists and the limits of representations 11. Feminist Storytelling in Films Comfort (2020) and Twenty Two (2015): Vomiting Ak, Affective Interpellations, and Radical Chronologies in the Visual Activisms of Comfort Women 12. Beyond Tropes and Tragedy: Stakeholders Shaping Arts-Based Activism on Gender-Based Violence in Nepal 13. Performative aesthetics of resonance and sound as transgressive in selected works of Gabrielle Goliath and Lara Foot
Part V: Femicide and feminicide 14. Resistance against Feminicides: Transnational Visuality and the Feminist Public Sphere 15. Intervening Multiple Spaces. Sonia Madrigal's 'La muerte sale por el Oriente'. 16
. Materialising the Missing: Christi Belcourt's
Walking With Our Sisters.
About the author
Basia Sliwinska is Researcher at the Institute of Art History of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Founding Editor of Taylor&Francis journal
Feminist Art Practices and Research: COSMOS.
