Visual and Embodied Politics
Feminist Activism and Art in Peru
Phoebe Martin(Author)
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 10. December 2026
Book
Hardback
256 pages
979-8-7651-4474-9 (ISBN)
Description
By analyzing contemporary feminist politics in Peru through the lens of artistic and creative practices, this book provides a critical example of feminist struggle in a context of conservative backlash and political crisis.
The Peruvian feminist movement offers a clear illustration of the relationship between art and contemporary activism. Yet it has not previously received significant attention in the literature on Latin American feminist movements. Visual and Embodied Politics offers a novel framework for analyzing the role of art in activism: not just as a strategy or form of expression, but also as a way of understanding the world. The strategies used by contemporary activists include illustration, performance, embroidery, video production, photography, dance and more. This book's analysis of these activists and their strategies to address political crises, gendered violence, and reproductive injustice provides new understandings of activism, and what social movements can learn from feminist activists.
The Peruvian feminist movement offers a clear illustration of the relationship between art and contemporary activism. Yet it has not previously received significant attention in the literature on Latin American feminist movements. Visual and Embodied Politics offers a novel framework for analyzing the role of art in activism: not just as a strategy or form of expression, but also as a way of understanding the world. The strategies used by contemporary activists include illustration, performance, embroidery, video production, photography, dance and more. This book's analysis of these activists and their strategies to address political crises, gendered violence, and reproductive injustice provides new understandings of activism, and what social movements can learn from feminist activists.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
15 bw images
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
349 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-7651-4474-9 (9798765144749)
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Person
Phoebe Martin is a postdoctoral research associate at King's College London, UK. Her research looks at the intersections of feminist activism and art. She is currently part of a project examining how creative methodologies can address gendered violence.
Content
1. Introduction
2. Theorising visual and embodied feminist politics
3. Alerta! Alerta! Alerta que caminan mujeres feministas por las calles de Lima : feminism in Peru from centralism to the margins
4. Ahora que estamos juntas, ahora que si nos ven: feminist symbols in the digital borderlands
5. Poniendo la cuerpa : feminist bodies on the line
6. Somos las hijas de las indigenas que no pudiste esterilizar: politics of representation
7. Conclusion
2. Theorising visual and embodied feminist politics
3. Alerta! Alerta! Alerta que caminan mujeres feministas por las calles de Lima : feminism in Peru from centralism to the margins
4. Ahora que estamos juntas, ahora que si nos ven: feminist symbols in the digital borderlands
5. Poniendo la cuerpa : feminist bodies on the line
6. Somos las hijas de las indigenas que no pudiste esterilizar: politics of representation
7. Conclusion