Transnational Visual Activism for Womens Reproductive Rights - My Body, My Choice

Focusing on art practices that advocate, raise consciousness and educate about the human right to reproductive health, this book analyses and compares forms of feminist artivism to interrogate bodily rights while closely examining the lived experiences of women and their right of free choice.

Sommario

1. Birthing Angel of Carriance 2. Soft Advocacy: Using Textile Art to Enhance Lactation Care After Infant Loss 3. My First Year Too: Obstetric Violence and Maternal Subjectivity 4. Birth Rites Collection: Imagining an Activist Art Collection 5. The Geopolitics of Reclaiming the Body in the Precariousness of Life: Contemporary Women’s Global Art Practices 6. Four Heads, One ‘Pussy’: The Struggle for Bodily Autonomy and Reproductive Rights in the Work of the Feminist Artist Collective ZOiNA 7. Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Chile: Feminist Creativity, Strength, and Fight for Justice 8. ‘I Will Post About It’: Aleta Valente’s Production as Art Activism for Brazilian Reproductive Rights 9. Global Scream! Polish Feminist Protest Art in Berlin 10. ‘You Will Never Walk Alone’: The Feminist Contemporary Arts Activism of Marta Frej and Monika Drożyńska in Support of Reproductive Rights in Poland 11. Andrea Bowers, the Army of Three, and the Writing of Reproductive Justice 12. Bang Geul Han: Weaving Abortion Rights, Word by Word 13. Right to Be (Trans), and (Abortion by) Own Will: How Activists Challenged Finland’s Restrictive Legislation 14. Thank God for Abortion: Queering and Decolonising the Struggle for Reproductive Freedom

Info autore

Basia Sliwinska is a Researcher at the Art History Institute (NOVA FCSH, Lisbon). She is on the Editorial Board of Third Text.

Riassunto

Focusing on art practices that advocate, raise consciousness and educate about the human right to reproductive health, this book analyses and compares forms of feminist artivism to interrogate bodily rights while closely examining the lived experiences of women and their right of free choice.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Basia (Art History Institute (Nova Fcsh Sliwinska
• Con la collaborazione di: Basia Sliwinska (Editore), Sliwinska Basia (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 09.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032533537
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253353-7
• Pagine: 216
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, ART / History / General, ART / Women Artists, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, History of art / art & design styles, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, History of Art, Political campaigning & advertising, Gender studies: women, Political campaigning and advertising, Gender studies: women and girls