Iconic Works of Art by Feminists and Gender Activists

Introduction

Brenda Schmahmann

Part I: Reconfiguring Domestic Life

1. The Aesthetic Labour of Protest, Now and Then: The Women's Peace Camp at Greenham Common (1981-2000)

Alexandra Kokoli

2. "Middle fingers up, put them hands high": Rethinking Tracey Moffatt's Scarred for Life (1994)

Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore

3. Bodies, Borders, and Law: Tanja Ostojic's Looking for a Husband with EU Passport (2000-05)

Hilary Robinson

4. Household Matters: Usha Seejarim's Venus at Home (2012) and the Politics of Women's Work

Brenda Schmahmann

Part II: Critiquing Gender Violence and Abuse

5. Hannah Wilke's S.O.S. Starification Object Series (1974-82) in the Era of #MeToo

Marissa Vigneault

6. Private Trauma, Public Healing: Hannan Abu Hussein's The Vagina Series (begun 2002)

Tal Dekel

7. Transgressive Martyrs in Diane Victor's Wise and Foolish Virgins (2008)

Karen von Veh

8. Swoon's Medea (2017) as a Feminist Intervention: Re-producing the Maternal

Paula J. Birnbaum

Part III: Great Goddess Iconographies

9. Ana Mendieta's Silueta Series (1973-80): In and Out of Feminism

Sherry Buckberrough

10. Clara Meneres' Woman-Earth-Life (1977) and the Politics of Censorship, Concealment and Vandalism

Laura Castro

11. The Female Body and Spirituality in Ilse Fuskova's El Zapallo (1982) Series

Maria Laura Rosa

Part IV: Body Politics

12. Who is Afraid of Natalia LL? Consumer Art (1972-75) and the Pleasures and Dangers of Feminist Art in Communist Poland

Joanna Inglot

13. An Icon for the Aged: Alice Neel's Self-Portrait (1980)

Pamela Allara

14. Phaptawan Suwannakudt's Akojorn (1995): Connecting Women

Yvonne Low

15. Into the grave and back: Psychosomatic passage through grief in Lindi Arbi's Unearthed (2009)

Irene Bronner