Overview

This book illuminates arts activist interventions that raise consciousness and advocacy for women’s right to a life free from violence. In a context where gender-based violence (GBV) has continued to intensify across the globe, the international range of essays focuses on violations of bodily integrity and autonomy, reproductive, domestic and sexual violence, femicide and feminicide. Comparing and interrogating arts activist strategies and visual methods, the book also explores tactics employed by arts activists attentive to effects and lived experiences of GBV, and imagining potential solutions founded in feminist thinking to change behaviours and raise awareness generating systemic change. The case studies of feminist transnational contemporary arts activism include examples from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Ghana, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico, Nepal, Poland, South Africa and the United States. Arts engaged include textile work, crafts-making, performance art, clay work, protest art, and documentary art, indicating the breadth and richness of the work of feminist political artists. At a time when, according to the UN Women’s estimates, almost one in three women has been subjected to violence, it is critical to understand how feminist politics catalyses social, cultural, and political changes. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, women’s studies, gender studies, and visual culture.

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Author:   Basia Sliwinska (Art History Institute (NOVA FCSH, Lisbon), Portugal)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9781032797090

ISBN 10:   1032797096
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   29 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table 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.

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Basia Sliwinska is Researcher at the Institute of Art History of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Founding Editor of the Taylor & Francis journal Feminist Art Practices and Research: COSMOS.

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